The Quality Life Potential, QLP is a new well-being measure. The QLP combines income above social poverty line with life expectancy at any age according to the quality life function. The objective of this research is to show the feasibility and relevance of QLP estimation with available...

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality among twenty-four countries belonging to the OECD during the period 1962-1993, using the database provided by this Organization. It argues the relevance of distinguishing between the two variables that arehabitually considered in the analysis of...

This paper draws attention to the internal consistency of the demographic statistics frequently used in applied work, population stocks and flows of births, deaths and net migration. We illustrate some inconsistencies found in these statistics provided by the Spanish central statistical office,...

This paper questions the empirical evidence of the relationship between inequality and growth on the basis of the estimation of convergence equations. The criticisms are aimed in two directions - at the quality of the data and at the standard estimation procedure. It begins by describing in...

This paper examines the usefulness of the Spanish Household Budget Continuous Survey (base 1997), ECPF1997, on order to study the distribution of income. In particular compares the original quarterly files with a longitudinal file constructed by the Spanish Statistical Institute (INE). Given...

This paper presents Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) at the national level for the years 2004, 2005 y 2006, and at the regional level (NUTS 2) by pooling the information of these three years from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey. This is the...

The paper aims to analyze the sources and criteria used to elaborate historical series ofthe main aggregates and macromagnitudes of the fourteen Spanish industrial sectors for the 1964-1989 period. Specifically, it presents Gross Value Added (GVA) sector series at factor cost andits distribution...

This paper tries to precisely date the change of monetary policy regimeoccurred in Spain along the year 1984 moving away from controlling monetaryaggregates into interest rate targeting. The most likely date for the changeis estimated and, surprisingly, there is evidence that agents learn...