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The effect of maritime transport costs on the extensive and intensive margins: Evidence from the Europe–Asia trade
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
This article investigates the determinants of maritime trade. It focuses in particular on the extent to which variations in trade-related costs between Asia and Europe help to explain the surge in Euro–Asian trade in eight ...
La Calidad percibida de la Docencia Universitaria: ¿Son mejores Docentes los mejores Investigadores?
(Universidad de Zaragoza, 2015-02)
We analyze the interaction between university professors’ teaching quality and their research and administrative activities. Our sample is an individual panel data set from a medium size public Spanish university. Although ...
Estimating the environmental Kuznets curve for Spain by considering fuel oil prices (1874–2011)
(Elsevier, 2016)
We perform a structural analysis on an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for Spain by exploiting long time series (1874–2011) and by using real oil prices as an indicator of variations in fuel energy consumption. This ...
Determinants of deep integration: examining socio-political factors
(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2011)
This research has three main aims: firstly, to empirically analyse the determinants of different levels ofintegration by re-examining the evidence presented by Baier and Bergstrand (Journal of International Economics ...
Convergence and determinants of young people not in employment, education or training: An European regional analysis
(Elsevier, 2022)
In this paper, we study the convergence in the rates of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training
(NEET) across the 274 European regions from 2000 to 2019. First, we apply the club convergence methodology
and ...
Oil prices, unemployment and the financial crisis in oil-importing countries: The case of Spain
(2019-08-15)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of oil price shocks on unemployment in an oil-importing country such as Spain to determine whether they affect unemployment differently in times of financial distress. In order ...
Unemployment Convergence in Central and Eastern European Countries: Driving Forces and Cluster Behavior
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
Employing a nonlinear logistic smooth transition autoregression system and comovement analysis, we find that the German business cycle has acted as a common driver affecting the cyclical behavior of unemployment rates in ...
Social Exclusion and Convergence in the EU: An Assessment of the Europe 2020 Strategy
(MDPI, 2020)
Economic convergence has long been a declared objective of the EU and considered the fundamental mechanism for achieving socioeconomic cohesion. The recent economic crisis had an uneven impact across EU countries and brought ...
Re-examining inequality persistence
(Institute for the World Economy, 2020-01-20)
Although it is not a new phenomenon, in recent years inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda given the concern that will result in political instability and social resentment. Persistence in inequality can ...
Inequality and Unemployment Patterns in Europe: Does Integration Lead to (Real) Convergence?
(Springer Verlag, 2018)
The economic convergence criteria adopted in the Maastricht Treaty and the fiscal discipline of the Stability and Growth Pact enforced nominal convergence, leaving aside real convergence indicators. In this paper, we use ...