El principal objetivo del artículo es llevar a cabo un análisis del papel de los Servicios Públicos de Empleo (SPE) en el mercado de trabajo español. Para ello se realiza un análisis a nivel provincial que incorpora diferentes aspectos espaciales así como la estructura descentralizada de...

The employment is a main economic variable whose evolution has shown different dynamics within the European Union. Recent papers have recovered the significance of the sectoral factors in the explanation of the regional growth. In this sense, shift and share analysis has been considered an...

Small enterprises are an important source of employment in European economies. Frequently first step to create a firm is self-employment and policies fostering this kind of employment are common. In this paper, an evaluation of a Spanish self-employment scheme is done focusing in its job...

The analysis of different economic situations and risk factors is necessary in order to properly define forecasting scenarios. In this paper we focus on the shift-share model as a useful tool in the definition of economic scenarios, based on the different components that contribute to the change...

The main feature of shift-share analysis is, according to Dunn (1960), the computation of geographical shifts in economic activity. Nevertheless, the traditional shift-share approach does not include explicitly the interaction between the considered spatial units (countries, municipalities,...

Mientras el gasto en políticas activas de empleo ha crecido significativamente durante los últimos años en España, la efectividad de estas políticas dista de ser suficientemente conocida. Esta investigación parte de la idea de que estas medidas no suponen beneficios indiscutibles, como se...