Employment and public capital in spain
Raurich, Xavier (Universitat de Girona)
Sala Lorda, Hèctor (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Sorolla, Valeri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada

Date:	2006
Description:	25 p.
Abstract:	This paper analyses the e¤ects on employment of increasing the stock of public capital. To this end, we derive a wage equation so that wages are endogenized. This allows us to show that, by means of a higher elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages, a rise in public capital increases employment. The estimation of a structural model for the Spanish private sector tests and con…rms empirically this relationship. The results show that an increase in public capital has a significant and positive direct influence on employment, and indirect e¤ects derived from lower wages and higher economic growth. Finally, we undertake a simulation exercise to assess the long run efects on employment and economic growth of increasing public capital.
Rights:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús de Creative Commons, amb la qual es permet copiar, distribuir i comunicar públicament l'obra sempre que se'n citin l'autor original, la universitat i el departament i no se'n faci cap ús comercial ni obra derivada, tal com queda estipulat en la llicència d'ús
Language:	Anglès
Series:	Departament d'Economia Aplicada. Documents de treball
Series:	Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 0204-1
Document:	Working paper
Subject:	Capital ; Treball ; Espanya

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