The two official statistics that periodically measure the evolution of unemployment in Spain, that is, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the registered unemployment series of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, show both a similar trend of rapid employment destruction since the...

Bilateral deals for large clients or key account management (henceforth KAM) is traditionally justified in terms of the importance of a long-term association between a firm and such clients. However, in this paper we offer a different rationale for a seller to apply KAM to its large buyers. When...

The aim of this paper is to present a systematic and detailed account regarding the behavior of Spanish regional unemployment rates throughout the last two decades of the 20th century. In a first approach we use descriptive techniques that allow to confirm the existence, and especially the...

El presente trabajo analiza la evolución del gasto farmacéutico en Galicia en los últimos años, así como los distintos factores que inciden sobre él. El incremento constante de este capítulo, en torno al 8,5% anual, amenaza la sostenibilidad del sistema y hasta la fecha ninguna de las...

This paper is focused in the line of research that analyses how the age of the worker influences in the practice of his/her work. The aim is to study the impact of the worker’s age in the incidence and severity of labour accidents, as well as in the duration of the sick leaves caused by them....

The existence and persistence of regional disparities is a common problem of many European economies. However, in Spain, this fact exhibits a characteristic feature: a strong positive relationship with the business cycle. The analysis in this paper investigates the relationship between this...

By starting from the consideration that non-profit organizations cover a significant redistributive function beside that of governmental agencies, the paper questions why government prefers to finance via transfers private entities (lucrative and non-lucrative) rather than produce these goods...

This paper is concerned with an extension of the notion of Pareto efficiency, referred to as Millian efficiency, to evaluate the performance of symmetric allocations in an overlapping generations setting with endogenous fertility. The criterium of Pareto dominance underlying the notion of...

This paper uses an applied general equilibrium model to assess the effects on the viability of the Spanish social security system of changes in demographics, focusing on the balanced growth path. First we suppose that the population growth rate is zero, then we simulate the effects of several...

We analyze the dynamics of the (non-drastic) patents which last for several periods when its owner is asymmetrically informed in relation to their users. These learn -by using the patent- its cost characteristics, and there is symmetric information among the users. In this setting, we show that...