Dades professionals
Catedràtic
d’Economia Aplicada
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del grup de recerca “Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional” — AQR
Membre
del Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada — IREA
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Human capital threshold effects in the
internationalisation-productivity growth relationship - evidence from Spanish
regions, Empirical Economics Letters,
7: 1083-1089 (2008, amb Serrano G i Requena F)
Does human capital stimulate investment in physical
capital?: Evidence from a cost system framework, Economic Modelling, 25: 1295-1305 (2008,
amb Moreno R)
Firm size and the entire distribution of
wages. A semiparametric
approach, Applied Economics
Letters, 15: 427-430 (2008, amb El-Attar
M)
Returns to local and transport infrastructure under regional spillovers, International
Regional Science Review, 30: 47-71 (2007, amb Moreno R)
Regional
heterogeneity in the private and social returns to human capital, Spatial Economic Analysis 2: 23-44
(2007, amb Moreno R)
Complementarity
between local knowledge and internationalisation in regional technological
progress, Journal of Regional Science, 46: 901-929
(2006, amb Serrano G i Requena F)
Empirical
Growth Models with Spatial Effects, Papers
in Regional Science, 85: 177-198 (2006, amb Fingleton B)
The geographical
distribution of unemployment in Spain, Regional Studies, 39: 305-318
(2005, amb del Barrio T i Artís M)
Breaking the panels: An
application to the GDP per capita, Econometrics Journal, 8: 159-175 (2005, amb Carrión JLl i del Barrio
T)
Regional
Externalities and Growth: Evidence from European Regions, Journal of
Regional Science, 44: 43-73 (2004, amb Vayá E
i Artís M)
Evidence on the
Purchasing Power Parity in a Panel of Cities, Applied Economics, 36:
961-966 (2004, amb Carrión JLl i del Barrio T)
On the Effectiveness of
Private and Public Capital, Applied Economics 35: 727-740 (2003, amb Moreno A i Artís M)
New Evidence on international R&D spillovers, human capital and
productivity in the OECD, Economics Letters, 77: 41-45 (2002, amb del
Barrio T i Serrano G)
The Regional Distribution of Spanish Unemployment. A Spatial Analysis, Papers
in Regional Science, 81: 365-389 (2002, amb del Barrio T i Artís M)
Public Infrastructure,
Private Capital and the Performance of Manufactures, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 32: 97-121 (2002, amb Moreno
R i Artís M)
Regional Economic
Dynamics and Convergence in the EU, The
Annals of Regional Science, 33: 343-370 (1999, amb Vayá E, Mora AJ i
Suriñach J)
Evidence on the complex
link between infrastructures and regional growth, International Journal of Development and Planning Literature, 12:
81-109 (1998, amb Moreno R, Artis M i Suriñach J)
Is There an Homogeneous
Spanish Mediterranean Axis?, Papers in
Regional Science, 76: 91-113 (1997, amb Artís M i Suriñach J)
Cambios en la
distribución salarial en España, 1995-2002. Efectos a través del tipo de
contrato, Revista de Economía Aplicada
(en premsa, amb Motellón E i El-Attar M)
Comentari
a "Geographic Neutrality: Measuring International Trade Integration"
d’Arribas et al, Moneda y Crédito,
226: 178-183 (2008)
El
papel del capital humano en la relación entre internacionalización y
crecimiento de las regiones españolas, Temas
Actuales de Economía, 2: 137-163 (2008, amb Serrano G i Requena F)
Heterogeneidad en las
distribuciones salariales entre las regiones españolas, Papeles de Economía
Española 107: 214-230 (2006, amb El-Attar M)
Externalidades entre economías en crecimiento. Competencia vs cooperación
regional, Papeles y Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y
Políticas XII: 108-131 (2004)
Capital humano, apertura
y crecimiento. Evidencia para la industria de las regiones españolas, Economía Industrial 357: 175-187 (2004,
amb Serrano G, García JR i Requena F)
La
distribución provincial del desempleo en España, Papeles de Economía
Española 93: 195-208 (2002, amb del Barrio T i Artís M)
Convergencia Regional en
la UE ante el nuevo entorno económico, ICE.
Revista de Economía 762: 25-41 (1997, amb Vayá E, Mora AJ i Suriñach J)
Increasing
returns and the distribution of manufacturing productivity in the EU regions,
en Arestis P, Baddeley M i McCombie JSL (Eds.), Economic Growth: New Directions in Theory and Policy, Edward Elgar. (2007, amb
Fingleton B)
Infrastructure
investments as a tool for regional development policy: Lessons from the Spanish
evidence, en Artis M, Banerjee A i Marcellino M (Eds.), The Central and Eastern European Countries and the European Union, Cambridge University Press. (2006, amb Moreno R i Artis M)
Economic Growth and
Spatial Externalities, en L. Anselin, R. Florax, and S. Rey (Eds.), Advances
in Spatial Econometrics, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. (2004, amb Vaya E,
Moreno R i Suriñach J)
External
Effects and Costs of Production, en L. Anselin, R. Florax, and S. Rey (Eds.), Advances
in Spatial Econometrics, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. (2004, amb Moreno R,
Vaya E i Artís M)
Level
shifts in a panel data based unit root test: an application to the rate of
unemployment en Levine DK y Zame W (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 North
American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society: Economic Theory, Los
Angeles. (2002, amb Carrión J Ll i del Barrio T)
Diferencias regionales en el rendimiento privado y
social del capital humano, en Villaverde J (Ed.) Competitividad Regional en
la Unión Europea Ampliada, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Madrid. (2004,
amb Moreno R)
Crecimiento y
convergencia regional en España. ¿Qué hemos estado midiendo?, en Cabrer B
(Ed.), Diez años de Análisis Regional: El Proyecto Hispalink, Ed.
Mundi-Prensa, Madrid. (2001, amb Vaya E i Moreno R)
El papel de las regiones
mediterráneas en la evolución de las disparidades regionales en la Unión
Europea, en Bosch N y Castells A (Eds.) Desequilibrios territoriales en
España y Europa, ARIEL Economía, Barcelona (1999)
Análisis
Económico Regional. Nociones básicas de la Teoría de la Cointegración. A Bosch Ed, Barcelona. (1995, amb Suriñach J, Artís M i Sansó A)
Human capital and regional wage gaps (amb Motellon E) PDF
Abstract: This paper assesses the contribution of
human capital in explaining regional wage gaps, under the assumption that they have
not only to do with regional differences in the endowment of such type of
capital but also with the fact that returns to human capital investments differ
across regions. The indirect effect of human capital on wages through its
influence on the probability of employment is also taken into account by means
of the specification of regional wage equations that control for participation
in the labor market. The empirical analysis is based on a proposal of a new
method to decompose regional wage gaps for this type of specification, and is
applied to the analysis of average regional wage disparities in Spain, using
individual data from the extended sample of 2000 of the European Union
Household Panel. Results confirm the existence of disparities in the regional
endowment of characteristics that, both directly and indirectly (through the
effect on participation decisions into the labour market) contribute to
regional wage gaps. But, they also suggest that regional heterogeneity in
returns have even a larger contribution, which is particularly important in the
case of the effect of human capital, related to education and experience.
Regional heterogeneity in wage distributions.
Evidence from Spain (amb Motellon E i El-Attar M) Doc Treb IREA #2009-3
Abstract: Regional differences in real wages have
been shown to be both large and persistent in the U.S. and the U.K., as well as
in the economies of other countries. Empirical evidence suggests that wage
differentials adjusted for the cost of living cannot only be explained by the
unequal spatial distribution of characteristics determining earnings. Rather,
average wage gap decomposition reveals the important contribution made by
regional heterogeneity in the price assigned to these characteristics. This
paper proposes a method for assessing regional disparities in the entire wage
distribution and for decomposing the effect of differences across regions in
the endowments and prices of the characteristics. The hypothesis forwarded is
that the results from previous studies obtained by comparing average regional
wages may be partial and nonrobust. Empirical evidence from a matched
employer-employee dataset for Spain confirms marked differences in wage distributions
between regions, which do not result from worker and firm characteristics but
from the increasing role of regional differences in the return to human
capital.
Abstract: This paper investigates the extent to which
the gap in total factor productivity between small and large firms is due to
differences in the endowment of factors determining productivity and to the
returns associated with these factors. We place
particular emphasis on the contribution of differences in the propensity to
innovate and in the use of skilled labor across firms of different size.
Empirical evidence from a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms
corroborates that both differences in endowments and returns to innovation and
skilled labor significantly contribute to the productivity gap between small
and large firms. In addition, it is observed that the contribution of
innovation to this gap is caused only by differences in quantity, while
differences in returns have no effect; in the case of human capital, however,
most of the effect can be attributed to increasing differences in returns
between small and large firms.
Do
innovation and human capital explain the productivity gap between small and
large firms? (amb Castany L i
Moreno R) Doc Treb IREA #2007-16
Abstract: Empirical evidence is
compelling that large firms are more productive than small firms. The
hypothesis in this paper is that the productivity differences between small and
large firms are associated with two of the main determinants of a firm’s
performance: the human and technological capital that firms incorporate. We
suggest that the contribution of these factors in explaining the
productivity-size gap might not only be due to the fact that large firms make a
more extensive use of them, but also because large firms obtain higher returns
from their investment in human and technological capital. The evidence we obtain
for a comprehensive sample of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2002) supports
this hypothesis, which has important implications for the effectiveness of
policies designed to improve productivity in SMEs by stimulating innovation and
the use of more skilled workers.
Some evidence
on the aggregate profitability of human capital (amb Moreno R) PDF