• openAccess   Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike? 

      Cuadros, Ana; Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Mourelle, Estefanía Taylor and Francis (2022)
      In this paper, we analyse the existence of clusters in self-employment rates, segregating by place of birth, i.e. native vs foreign-born, in a group of 17 European countries. The analysis suggests that natives behave ...
    • openAccess   Education and economic growth: an empirical analysis of nonlinearities 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Mourelle, Estefanía Emerald (2020)
      Purpose – Might a country’s economic growth performance differ depending on the evolution of its human capital? This paper aims to consider education as a channel for human capital improvement and then for economic growth. ...
    • openAccess   Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach 

      Mourelle, Estefanía; Cuestas, Juan Carlos Informa UK Limited (Taylor & Francis Group) (2023-05-10)
      The aim of this article is to understand the dynamics of investment in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). The role that investment plays in the economic development is of particular interest in these countries, ...
    • openAccess   On the relationship between society and higher education: what path should we take? 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Mourelle, Estefanía Taylor and Francis (2018-02-11)
      The current network society, with its primacy of information and communication technologies, is challenging the higher education model. The needs and expectations of today’s students differ from those of students in the ...
    • openAccess   Real exchange rate misalignments in CEECs: Have they hindered growth? 

      Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Mourelle, Estefanía; Regis, Paulo José Springer (2019-07-16)
      We study the impact of exchange rate misalignment on economic activity in nine Central and Eastern European economies. Exchange rate misalignments are computed from country-specific long-run exchange rate relationships ...
    • openAccess   Selecting A Suitable Approach To Analyze The Future Of Higher Education 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Mourelle, Estefanía Elsevier (2016)
      How are higher education organizations going to cope with the challenges of a society that is continuously changing? Although the education sector needs to adapt to technological and socioeconomic changes, methodologies ...
    • openAccess   Self-employment by gender in the EU: convergence and clusters 

      FARIA, JOAO RICARDO; Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Gil-Alana, Luis; Mourelle, Estefanía Springer (2020-11-05)
      This paper studies the convergence of self-employment by gender in the European Union, through tests for the order of integration and cluster analysis, in order to investigate the occurrence of two types of convergence: ...