Renewable energy in the EU. The case of renewable energy policy in Spain

European Commission (FED/2013/320-282 EDULINK ACP

Energy in the EU

Materiales Green Energy Master Program en el marco GREENMAEuropean Commission (530620-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-IT-TEMPUS-JPCR

Consequences of Covid-19 on the Social Isolation of the Chinese Economy: Accounting for the Role of Reduction in Carbon Emissions

The main contribution of the present study to the energy literature is linked to the interaction between economic growth and pollution emission amidst globalization. Unlike other studies, this research explores the effect of economic and social isolation as a dimension of globalization. This allows underpinning the effects on the Chinese economic development of the isolation phenomenon as a consequence of coronavirus (COVID-19). To this end, annual time frequency data is used to achieve the hypothesized claims. The study resolutions include (i) The existence of a long-run equilibrium bond between the outlined variables (ii) The long-run estimates suggest that the Chinese economy over the investigated period, is inelastic to pollutant–driven economic growth as reported by the dynamic ordinary least squares, fully modified ordinary least squares and canonical regressions with a magnitude of 0.09%. (iii) The Chinese isolation is less responsive to its economic growth while the country political willpower is elastic as demonstrated by current government commitment to dampen the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is marked by the aggressive response on the government officials resolute by flattening the exponential impact of the pandemic. Based on these robust results some far-reaching policy implication(s) are underlined in the concluding remark section

Spanish hotel-real estate foreign investment evolution: 2000-2010

Vicerrectorado de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación de la Universidad de Alicant

Energy in the EU

Materiales Green Energy Master Program en el marco GREENMAEuropean Commission (530620-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-IT-TEMPUS-JPCR

The renewable energy in Spain

Las energías renovables se han convertido durante los últimos años en un sector de gran dinamismo en España. A la necesidad de aplicar las Directivas europeas para hacer frente a la problemática del cambio climático, se le han unido las exigencias de mejorar la eficiencia energética así como la de disminuir la dependencia del exterior. En este artículo se analizan las claves de este proceso, poniendo en evidencia tanto los factores que han posibilitado el rápido crecimiento de algunas tecnologías (eólica y solar preferentemente), como las limitaciones impuestas tanto por los procesos de consolidación presupuestaria como por el crecimiento acelerado de algunas de ellas.Renewable energies have in Spain become a very dynamic sector. The need to implement European Directives to address climate change issues, has been joined by the requirements to improve energy efficiency and to reduce the external dependence. This article discusses the keys to this process, highlighting both the factors that have enabled the rapid growth of some technologies (preferably wind and solar), and the limitations imposed by both budgetary consolidation processes as growth accelerated some of them

The Gender Wage Gap in Hospitality: New Evidence From Spain

This article examines the gender wage gap in the Spanish hospitality industry versus the rest of the economy. Decomposition techniques are applied to a nationwide representative sample that includes matched employer–employee data allowing an accurate quantification of the phenomenon and its determinants. The methodologies used allow us to examine the average gender wage gap and also how this gap behaves throughout the wage distribution. According to the results, the gender wage gap in hospitality is rather significant (although slightly lower compared with the rest of the economy) and exhibits a steeper profile along the wage distribution. A large part of the gap is explained by observable characteristics, as female hospitality workers have lower levels of seniority than men, are overrepresented in low-skilled occupations, have less supervisory responsibilities, and are segregated into low-wage firms. Although potentially direct discrimination seems to be lower in hospitality, it is not a negligible problem, as, in its most conservative measure (namely, when observationally identical male and female employees working in the same firm are compared), it accounts for as much as 0.05 log points or 30% of the raw gender wage gap. The evidence also shows that the particularly intense gender wage gap observed in the uppermost part of the wage distribution in the hospitality industry arises because more qualified women in the sector are doubly penalized by an intense segregation into comparatively worse jobs and by an unfavorable wage treatment with respect to comparable men, which is consistent with the glass-ceiling phenomenon.This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) and the European Union (ERDF) under Grant CSO2017-86474-R (National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation, Spain)