Scale and composition effects of human capital on Spanish regional migration
Clemente, J., Larramona, G and Montuenga, V. (2013) Scale and composition effects of human capital on Spanish regional migration, Applied Economic Letters, 20(18) 1644-1647. The aim of this paper is to test the effects of human capital on Spanish internal migration, decomposed into two components: the size, and the composition of the labour force. Our results indicate that those Spanish [...]
Out-migration of Spanish immigrants
Larramona, G. (2013). Out-migration of Spanish immigrants, Population, 68(2) 213-236. Out-migration is an increasingly significant phenomenon in Spain. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the role of Spain as a sending country changed, and it became a significant receiver of immigrants. The empirical literature, scant as it is, focuses on return migration rather than on the broader concept [...]
Education and age at migration
Aísa, R., J. Cabeza, G. Larramona (2014). Education and age at migration, Optimal Control, Applications and Method, DOI: 10.1002/oca.2078. We have designed a three-stage optimal control problem that endogenously determines age at migration and level of education. The combination of social and economic factors related to migration allows us to detect different patterns in the age at migration and the [...]
Internal migration and Spanish regional convergence (1972-1998)
Larramona, G. y M. Sanso (2014) Internal migration and Spanish regional convergence (1972-1998), International Migration, DOI: 10.1111/imig.12027. Following the results of a simple endogenous growth model, some useful conclusions are drawn from the empirical analysis of Spanish internal migrations between 1972 and 1998. Firstly, we find that there is no absolute convergence of the capital/labor ratio towards a unique value [...]
The associations between early life circumstances and later life health and employment in Europe
Manuel Flores y Adriaan Kalwij (2014) The associations between early life circumstances and later life health and employment in Europe. Empirical Economics. DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0785-3. Abstract: We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe to estimate for thirteen European countries the associations of early life circumstances - measured by childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES)- with [...]
Earnings Inequality in Spain
Bonhomme, S., & Hospido, L. (2013). Earnings Inequality in Spain, Intereconomics, Review of European Economic Policy, Volume 48, Number 6, November/December Summary and policy implications The social security data show that male earnings inequality in Spain has varied considerably over the past two decades. However, this evolution presents distinctive features compared to other developed countries such as the US or [...]
