A Decade of Lost Growth: Economic Policy in Spain through the Great Recession

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in South European Society and Politics, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2017.1301065. Under embargo. Embargo end date: 27 June 2018. Keith Salmon, 'A decade of lost growth: economic policy in Spain through the Great Recession', South European Society and Politics, first published online 27 March 2017.In 2008 the Spanish economy sank into recession, returning to growth in 2014. This paper explores the policies that were pursued by two successive governments to escape the recession. It comments on one of the most contentious strategies, that of austerity, and underlines the constraints on policy imposed by membership of the European Monetary Union (EMU) and a decentralised state. The Great Recession and accompanying austerity policy were associated with huge social and economic costs. Policy targets on the debt and deficit were not met. This experience, together with the broader sluggish growth in Europe and the political consequences associated with austerity, pointed to the need for a new policy mix.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

IV Censo General de Población y II de Vivienda 1962. Manual del Empadronador

Distribution rights are held by the Minnesota Population Center through Memorandums of Agreement with the countries represented. Original Scan: Centro Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Demographía (CELADE), Depository Copy: Minnesota Population CenterFunding provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD044154)

Censo General de Vivienda y Población. Manual de Enumeración

Distribution rights are held by the Minnesota Population Center through Memorandums of Agreement with the countries represented. Original Scan: Centro Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Demographía (CELADE), Depository Copy: Minnesota Population CenterFunding provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD044154).Honduras. Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda. Dirección General de Estadística y Censos.. (1961). Censo General de Vivienda y Población. Manual de Enumeración. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/42623

Instrucciones para los empleados de la estadística nacional: edición oficial

Manual para los trabajadores de la Dirección de Estadística Nacional. El documento incluye intrucciones detalladas sobre los procedimientos para organizar información relacionada con los sectores productivos del campo colombiano, así como indicaciones para aplicar las encuestas expuestas

Changes in the demand for private medical insurance following a shift in tax incentives

The 1998 Spanish reform of the Personal Income Tax eliminated the 15% deduction for private medical expenditures including payments on private health insurance (PHI) policies. To avoid an undesired increase in the demand for publicly funded health care, tax incentives to buy PHI were not completely removed but basically shifted from individual to group employer-paid policies. In a unique fiscal experiment, at the same time that the tax relief for individually purchased policies was abolished, the government provided for tax allowances on policies taken out through employment. Using a bivariate probit model on data from National Health Surveys, we estimate the impact of said reform on the demand for PHI and the changes occurred within it. Our findings indicate that the total probability of buying PHI was not significantly affected by the reform. Indeed, the fall in the demand for individual policies (by 10% between 1997 and 2001) was offset by an increase in the demand for group employer-paid ones. We also briefly discuss the welfare effects on the state budget, the industry and society at large. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.