The fall in consumption from being unemployed in Portugal and Spain

In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher while unemploymem duration is lower when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment benefits and family insurance, which are the main buffer against unemployment and have played difterent role in both countries, can explain this disparity. In this chapter we present some estimates of the loss of consumption suffered by unemployed workers relative to employed workers in Portugal and Spain. The estimates come form comparable data sets (cross-sections of the Household Budget Surveys). Our resuits confirm our prior: this loss is much more sizeable in Portugal

A tale of two neighbour economies: labour market dynamics in Portugal and Spain

Portugal and Spain are two neighbour economies which share many characteristics. However, Spanish unemployment more than doubles Portuguese unemployment. In this chapter we resort to structural VAR techniques to ascertain which shocks and what propagation mechanism underlie the functioning of the labours markets in both countries. Our results show that price adjustment is more sticky and that real wage flexibility is higher in Portugal. In line with this evidence, we find that, although shocks hitting both economies since the beginning of the eighties were not too dissimilar, their effects on unemployment were much more long-lasting in Spain than in Portugal

The Pan American (1978-10)

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The Pan American (1978-11)

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The Pan American (1978-09)

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The Pan American (1978-05)

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Stendhal viajero: Memorias de un turista

This article analyzes the route that Stendhal, following the great French Romantic authors, made through Italy - which he thought was his real homeland and where he began to write - and Europe. The works related to these journeys move away from the tourists’ guides clichés of that time, and express the need for a personal look on things and places, seeing unusual landscapes which can satisfy his spiritual wishes, or travelling just for professional reasons

Les habilitats bàsiques. L’alfabetització funcional de la població de les Illes Balears

En aquest treball, que deriva de la nostra tesi doctoral «El analfabetismo funcional en las Islas Baleares» (UIB, febrer de 2007), presentam el disseny d’investigació aplicat per comprovar si els dèfi cits d’alfabetització funcional1 tenen en origen un mal procés d’aprenentatge. Per tant, en aquestes pàgines tractam de verifi car la hipòtesi sostinguda que l’existència de l’analfabetisme funcional en la població adulta és explicada pel que anomenam «dèfi cit escolar».En este trabajo, derivado de mi tesis doctoral “El analfabetismo funcional en las Islas Baleares” (UIB, febrero 2007), presentamos el diseño de investigación aplicado para comprobar si los déficits en alfabetización funcional tienen su origen en un mal proceso de aprendizaje, es decir, en estas páginas tratamos de verificar la hipótesis sostenida que la existencia de analfabetismo funcional viene explicada por el denominado «déficit escolar»