Javier Salinas-Jimenez

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | UAM · Departamento de Economía y Hacienda Pública

The growing literature on happiness economics suggests that, together with absolute income, individual well-being is affected by relative income both horizontally (i.e. because of differences between an individual’s income and that of others to whom she compares) and vertically (i.e. compared to changes in individuals’ own income). Moreover, the wa...

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on subjective well-being by exploring the extent to which certain economic, social and institutional variables may affect the levels of well-being declared by individuals from different countries. To do this, we adopt a novel methodological approach based on frontier techniques in order to identify wh...

This paper examines whether foreign direct investment in one country helps to increase foreign investment in other countries with a similar degree of corruption. Our estimates are based on an unbalanced annual panel of 164 countries over the 2005–2015 period. Using spatial econometric techniques, our main findings reveal that foreign investment in...

In this paper we propose an innovative approach based on life satisfaction to estimate efficiency measures for individuals considering how they convert their resources into higher levels of happiness. We use an extension of the conditional nonparametric robust approach which allows us to consider a mixed set of contextual variables that can affect...

En este artículo se presenta, en primer lugar, una panorámica de la percepción que tienen los ciudadanos españoles sobre la corrupción. Para ello se examinarán las principales fuentes disponibles analizando la evolución temporal de dicha percepción y tomando como referencia la situación de los países de nuestro entorno. En segundo lugar, se realiza...

El libro plantea críticas y sugiere propuestas para diseñar un modelo de gasto que no ponga en riesgo la sostenibilidad del propio sector público, pero al mismo tiempo sea suficiente para promover el progreso social y el desarrollo económico. Se estudia el gasto público desde un enfoque multidisciplinar, si bien predominantemente económico, de tal...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between education, job aspirations and subjective well-being. This analysis is done across the entire well-being distribution and taking account of educational mismatches that could condition individuals’ satisfaction if education generates certain aspirations which are not met by t...

Purpose The aim of this article is to analyze the relationship between education, job aspirations and subjective wellbeing. This analysis is done across the entire wellbeing distribution and taking account of educational mismatches that could condition individuals’ satisfaction if education generates certain aspirations which are not met by the in...

In this chapter we analyze the factors behind life satisfaction of men and women, focusing on the role played by educational attainment and different patterns of work. Account is also taken of the social context as regards gender inequality since similar working status might lead to different perceptions of wellbeing depending on whether or not the...

This paper analyzes the effects of educational mismatch on subjective wellbeing. We first analyze whether a discrepancy exists between the aspirations associated with the level of education acquired by the individuals and the opportunities found in the labor market. Consistent with education generating certain aspirations, we find that educational...

The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of school choice and the influence of immigration on Spanish educational achievement. Therefore, the authors seek to ascertain whether the concentration of immigrants in certain schools implies a decrease in educational achievement for Spanish students as well as for immigrant students. There is also...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of education on life satisfaction once indirect effects through income, health, participation in the workforce or professional status are controlled for. The focus is placed on gender differences, thus studying whether the effects of education on life satisfaction differ for women and men an...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los efectos que la inmigración tiene en los resultados académicos de los estudiantes en España; así, se pretende indagar si la concentración de inmigrantes en determinados centros supone una caída en el rendimiento académico tanto de los alumnos españoles como de los propios inmigrantes. También se estudiará...

This article describes an approach to measuring efficiency of a set of units operating in an administrative public service context, namely real estate cadastral offices, a venue which has not been analysed previously in the reported literature. This study was madepossible thanks to the dataset provided by the Directorate General of Real Estate Cada...

In this paper we empirically investigate the direct effects of education on utility. Besides investment aspects of education, the focus is placed on its consumption component and on education positional concerns. We use data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and adopt a life satisfaction approach. First, we find that education shows a significant...

The aim of this paper is to study whether corruption spreads across neighboring countries. Spatial econometric techniques are used to analyze corruption interactions, testing whether the perception of corruption in neighboring countries affect a country's own corruption once other variables are controlled for. For a given country it is found that c...

In this paper we empirically investigate the direct effects of education on utility. Besides investment aspects of education, the focus is placed on its consumption component and on education positional concerns. We use data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and adopt a life satisfaction approach. First, we find that education shows a significant...

Efficiency assessment of real estate cadastral offices using DEA This article describes an approach to measuring efficiency of a set of units operating in an administrative public service context, namely real estate cadastral offices, a venue which has not been analysed previously in the reported literature. This study was madepossible thanks to th...

In most countries, the public sector considers basic education as a preferential good which is essential for getting the development of a worthy life. Since the Second World War until now, many countries have introduced free, compulsory, and sometimes decentralized educative systems, which have contributed to their economic development.

This paper focuses on how different types of motivations can condition satisfaction with life, studying whether individual heterogeneity in motivations affects the relationship between income and life satisfaction and whether the relationship between motivation and satisfaction differs for people in different income-groups. Data used in this study...

This paper adopts a productivity-based perspective in order to study how corruption conditions the efficiency levels of the economies and their TFP growth rate. It attempts to identify the channels through which corruption can influence productivity growth, whether by conditioning improvements in relative efficiency levels or by shifting the produc...

This paper proposes an approach to measure efficiency of a set of units operating in an administrative public service, namely real estate cadastral offices, which have not been analysed previously. This study has been made possible thanks to the database provided by the Directorate General of Real Estate Cadastral Assessment which includes informat...

Interest in how social assistance programmes are organized has recently heightened, fed by concerns about the limits on achieving greater efficiency. Most available evidence considers performance indicators that are too general, there being few studies relating the use of inputs to outcomes. We compare different performance indicators of Madrid’s p...

Measuring efficiency in the education sector is a highly complex task. One of the reasons is that the main resource of schools (the type of students they have) lie outside of their control, which means that it must be treated differently to other factors in analysis. This study examines the different options available in the literature for incorpor...

This paper reviews some ideas developed in the literature on «happiness economics» on the impact of education on subjective well-being. It presents the main empirical regularities found regarding the relationship between education and subjective well-being and discusses the main proposals in the field of happiness economics aimed at explaining the...

Resumen En este trabajo se analiza el grado de adaptación de los inmigrantes al sistema educativo español y el impacto de su llegada sobre los alumnos nativos. Para ello se estudia, utilizando la base de datos PISA 2003 de la OCDE, si el hecho de ser inmigrante influye en la probabilidad de repetición de curso de los propios inmigrantes y de los al...

Over the last decade there has been growing interest in understanding the relationship between corruption and economic performance. The principal motivation of this work is to analyze whether corruption affects the economic results of OECD countries from a productivity-based perspective. To this end, we shall adopt a frontier approach which will al...

Starting from the median voter model commonly used in the literature to analyse the determinants of the functional distribution of public spending, we propose a new multiproduct dynamic model that also allows one to classify the nature of the interaction –complementarity or substitutability– between the different categories of government expend...

This paper studies the influence that the recently reformed budgetary institutions in the new EU member states may have had on their public finances. We test if their newly formed institutions have already started to shape their fiscal outcomes, as EU-15 institutions did in the past. To answer this question, this paper develops new institutional in...

Theoretical and empirical work trying to understand the causes of corruption, why it tends to be highly persistent, or what are the social, political or macroeconomic effects of corruption, is attracting lot of attention in recent years. The objective of this article is to review this literature, discussing the main theoretical and empirical develo...

Junto a los desarrollos teóricos que tratan de comprender las causas de la corrupción, por qué ésta tiende a presentar un alto grado de persistencia, o cuáles son los efectos sociales, políticos o macroeconómicos de la corrupción, en la última década ha aparecido una gran cantidad de trabajos empíricos que estudian la relación entre la corrupción y...

The study of corruption is attracting lot of attention in recent years. Focusing on the economic consequences of corruption, the empirical evidence points to a positive relation between institutional integrity, or absence of corruption, and economic growth. Although most developed countries tend to have lower corruption than less developed ones, th...

Ten new countries joined the EU in 2004, and some of them will soon also join the euro. Since their incorporation to the single currency is subject to their fulfilment of the Maastricht criteria that current members already fulfilled in 1998, this paper describes and compares these fiscal adjustments. Because fiscal consolidations vary in their tim...

La medición de la eficiencia en el sector educativo es una tarea muy compleja. Uno de los motivos es que el principal factor productivo con el que cuentan los centros escolares, las características del alumnado, está fuera de su control, por lo que debe recibir un tratamiento diferente al resto en las evaluaciones. En este trabajo se examinan las d...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo incide la corrupción en los niveles de productividad y en su ritmo de crecimiento en una muestra de países de la OCDE. Para ello adoptaremos un enfoque frontera, lo que nos permitirá, por una parte, analizar si esta variable condiciona los niveles de eficiencia con que operan las economías y, por otra, e...

Methodological issues relevant when assessing the efficiency of public units are discusses by Pedraja-Chaparro, Salinas-Jiménez and Smith with reference to non-parametric approaches. First they note that public sector activities usually are aimed at achieving various goals other than efficiency, and that often there is a trade-off among various obj...

The aim of this paper is to study how much sensitive efficiency scores are when different approaches proposed in the literature are used to include exogenous factors in efficiency analysis. Specifically, we will concentrate on two crucial issues. One the one hand, although we have an extensive data set on these variables derived from school surveys...

El uso de indicadores de gestión en el ámbito público se ha extendido en las últimas décadas con el objetivo de valorar la actuación de las agencias públicas y contribuir a mejorar su funcionamiento y la eficiencia con que éstas operan. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las características que debe reunir un sistema de indicadores y los princ...

En este trabajo se analizan las diferencias en los procesos de saneamiento de las finanzas públicas de los nuevos Estados miembros de la UE, centrándonos en aquellos que proceden del área de influencia soviética y en los dos candidatos a la próxima adhesión en 2007 (Bulgaria y Rumania). El objetivo del trabajo es determinar la influencia que las di...

The main objective of this paper is to provide a general analysis of the evolution of the funding models of the Spanish Autonomous Communities (regional level) during the last decade and explore the main achievements of the new model (2001). In particular, the funding models that have been applied during these years are assessed comparing their res...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la sensibilidad de los índices de eficiencia estimados para los distintos centros educativos a las diferentes alternativas propuestas en la literatura para incluir los factores exógenos en el análisis. Concretamente, nos centraremos en dos cuestiones fundamentales. Contando con una información muy rica sumini...

It is often the case that only routinely collected, highly aggregate administrative data are available for the purposes of evaluating major public policy initiatives. Such data clearly fall short of the information advocated by statisticians and economists for the purposes of policy evaluation. This paper examines the extent to which methodologies...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la sensibilidad de los índices de eficiencia estimados para los distintos centros educativos a las diferentes alternativas propuestas en la literatura para incluir los factores exógenos en el análisis. Concretamente, nos centraremos en dos cuestiones fundamentales. Contando con una información muy rica sumini...

The user of data envelopment analysis (DEA) has little available guidance on model quality. The technique offers none of the misspecification tests or goodness of fit statistics developed for parametric statistical methods. Yet, if a DEA model is to guide managerial policy, the quality of the model is of crucial importance. This paper suggests four...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el proceso de convergencia entre las regiones europeas desde comienzos de la pasada década. De acuerdo con este objetivo, el estudio de la correlación de corte transversal, tradicional en los estudios sobre convergencia, se completará con un análisis de la evolución de la posición relativa de las distintas re...

This paper examines the role that weight restrictions play in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It is argued that the decision to include a factor (input or output) in a DEA model represents an implicit judgement that the factor has a non-trivial weight. It therefore seems perverse to allow DEA to assign a trivial weight to that factor in assessing...

The objective is to provide a measure of technical efficiency of the Administrative Litigation Division of the Spanish High Courts. The concept of efficiency to be measured and the most adequate technique for carrying out the efficiency analysis are selected by considering the specific characteristics of public production. The analysis is undertake...

The quality of primary care should ultimately be judged on the effect of health outcome of individual patients. However, for the foreseeable future, it is inconceivable that the necessary data will be available to implement this principle. And in any case, specification of the necessary statistical model is fraught with difficulty. This paper there...

This paper studies the influence that the recently reformed budgetary institu-tions in the new EU member states may have had on their public finances. We test if their newly formed institutions have already started to shape their fiscal outcomes, as EU-15 institutions did in the past. To answer this question, this article develops new institutional...

En este trabajo se pretende ilustrar la metodología para calcular cuál ha sido el impacto que la inmigración ha tenido en la financiación del sistema educativo español. Para ello se presta especial atención a la educación no universitaria, en la cuál el número de alumnos inmigrantes se ha incrementado respecto a los alumnos nativos en mayor medida...

Resumen: En la última década ha surgido un creciente interés por comprender la relación entre la corrupción y los resultados económicos. En general, la evidencia empírica sugiere que la corrupción condiciona los niveles de renta y productividad y las tasas de crecimiento de las economías, con resultados que tienden a ser más favorables a la existen...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el proceso de convergencia entre las regiones europeas desde comienzos de la pasada década. De acuerdo con este objetivo, el estudio de la correlación de corte transversal, tradicional en los estudios sobre convergencia, se completará con un análisis de la evolución de la posición relativa de las distintas re...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la sensibilidad de los índices de eficiencia estimados para los distintos centros educativos a las diferentes alternativas propuestas en la literatura para incluir los factores exógenos en los análisis de eficiencia. Concretamente, nos centraremos en dos cuestiones fundamentales. Por un lado, aunque se dispon...

Las técnicas de medición de la eficiencia y de la productividad en el sector público son una herramienta con un elevado nivel de transversalidad en distintas asignaturas troncales, obligatorias y optativas del área de Economía Pública, tanto en los programas de grado en la Licenciatura en Economía (LECO) y en la Licenciatura en Administración y Dir...

In this working paper we analyse the relationship between budgetary institutions and the performance of public finances in ten of the twelve countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 (Cyprus and Malta excluded). We review the latest contributions in the literature on institutional aspects of fiscal policy, and highlight different economic and p...

El sistema de financiación autonómica 2002 -- Los efectos del nuevo sistema de financiación autonómico sobre la suficiencia y la equidad -- Estimación del sistema actual de financiación autonómica: el caso de la integración de las competencias sanitarias -- La financiación de los servicios sanitarios: distribución de fondos por comunidades autónoma...

I. Panorámica general de la evolución del gasto público (1975-2003) --- II. Políticas sectoriales de gasto público --- III. El gasto público español en la Unión Europea (UE)

En el trabajo se profundiza en el contraste de la hipótesis de disciplina de mercado para el caso de las Comunidades Autónomas, estimando la relación existente entre los tipos de interés soportados por estos gobiernos y una serie de variables de naturaleza presupuestaria, financiera, económica, territorial y temporal. El estudio empírico muestra qu...

. A partir de la definici�n de privaci�n formulada por Hey y Lambert (1980), se propone un esquema de ponderaci�n, dependiente de un par�metro de car�cter distributivo, al agregar la privaci�n asociada a los distintos niveles de renta, lo que permite expresar la privaci�n media de la sociedad como el producto de la renta media de la poblaci�n y el...