Publications

Household savings in Spain are high but highly unequal. While high-income households save nearly 50%, precarious households show negative rates. This disparity limits the ability of vulnerable families to absorb economic shocks.

This Working Paper briefly describes the latest update of RegData, a database that compiles the main economic and demographic aggregates for Spain’s regions over the past six decades.

Economic growth, inequality, and zero-sum thinking form a triangle that has shaped societies over the years. The historical transition from a subsistence economy to one of sustained growth has transformed social perceptions of wealth and how it is distributed.

This Working Paper provides a brief description of the latest update of RegData, a database containing the main economic and demographic aggregates for Spanish regions over the last seven decades.

Based on the endogenous growth model of Lucas (1988 and 1990), in this Working Paper we propose a method to measure the total contribution of human capital to the variance of GDP per capita in a large sample of countries from 1960 to 2015.

This Working Paper provides a concise overview of the recent enhancements to the sector module within the RegData FEDEA-BBVA database.

Wage and disposable income inequality in Spain illustrates the importance of avoiding its causes by bringing Spain's unemployment rate down and converging it to EU levels, thereby enjoying the double dividend of full employment.