The Employer of Last Resort (ELR) program is a New Deal type of program to provide a government position for anyone seeking work. Unlike private industries who compete over prices and wages, the ELR “industry†is not meant to compete with the private sector; rather it provides public...

Outsourcing and trade integration of advanced countries is debated with respect to employment effects, in particular for low educated workers - at least in relative terms. We study the employment effects - differentiated by educational attainment levels - of changes in the patterns of trade...

The main objective of this paper is to determine how prices may change when some components of the cost structure concerning activity branches are modified. In doing so, an input-output price model is implemented to analyse the regional economy of Extremadura. This methodology allows us to...