In Chapter 2, "Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure," I study the determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings persistence between fathers and sons. Western economies...

We compare the welfare costs of tax distortions of labour supply in one and two member household discrete and continuous labour supply (leisure consumption) choice models. In the discrete models taxes induce a large response from a subset of the population, while the majority of the population...

El documento analiza el nivel y la evolución de la desigualdad en España durante la última crisis y la fase inicial de la actual recuperación. Para tal fin, el trabajo introduce, inicialmente, distintas dimensiones de la desigualdad en términos de salarios, renta, consumo y riqueza, y...

La contaminación atmosférica suscita un interés cada vez mayor entre la comunidad científica, los poderes públicos y la población en general, lo que ha llevado a un fuerte aumento en el número de artículos científicos sobre este asunto. Este documento proporciona un resumen de la...

"This document analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the early stages of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the various dimensions of wage, income, consumption and wealth inequality, and analyses how they have...