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 aim of this article is to analyze the financial-economic situation by sizes of Spanish firms. The results show that, not only the small size firms, but also the medium size firms, find more difficulties in their production organization than large firms. In fact, their human resources are...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors behind international migrationflows. To do so, we present an investigation into the determinants of the Spanishinternational migration flows. We examine the factors behind these flows over time, and whatmotivates return migration. We find...

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms producers of wooden goods, in presence of non desirable outputs. As main results, we find that the consideration of several restrictions on the expansion of non desirable outputs...

The aim of this paper is to analyze educationljob training data derived from the Spanish LabourForce PoLL (EPA) laying special emphasis on aspects related to unemployment. First, it is determined ifthere exists an inverted relation between education, job training and unemployment (an apparent...

This paper examines the job search behaviour of the working age population nonemployed,and the job search intensity of job seekers, using pooled cross sections for theperiod 1987 to 1991. Our purpose is to examine the changes occurred in job searchbehaviour in the Spanish labour market and the...

This paper aims to analyze the determinant factors of the commercial banks andsavings banks productivity dynamics for the 1986- 1992 period. Adjustment costs and the roleof expectations on banking firms decisions are included in the analysis, which concentrateson a period of important structural...

We present in this work a survey on sequential bargaining models with complete information that explain inefficiencies, frequently observed and with great economic impact, such as strikes, the establishment of commitments and the intransigent position of the negotiators. Furthermore, we pose...

This paper analyses the behavior of Spanish households for two simultaneous aspects of the dwelling: housing tenure and kind of building (one-family or multi-family). The objective is to asses the performance of the housing demand in Spain at a microeconomic level. The econometric models used in...