Patricia Suárez

• PhD Economics
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Oviedo

The aim of this paper is to analyse self-employment survival, with special interest in the role of human capital and regions. Using Spanish administrative data and multilevel models, we followed two cohorts of new entrepreneurs for 2 years. According to our findings, the survival rate of new entrants into self-employment is approximately 53%, with...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the accessibility of public employment services (PES) offices and unemployment rates in large urban areas of Spain. In total, there are 85 large urban areas in Spain encompassing 747 municipalities or 9.2% of all Spanish municipalities; 21 of these large urban areas are composed of just o...

When Spain began the transition from the Old Regime to liberalism, the business career of the Marquis of Sargadelos was unique. In an institutional scenario in which being a ‘profit seeker’ was an almost indispensable prerequisite to overcoming the steep barriers to the entry of manufacturing initiatives, and in a society where the capital accumula...

Introducción. La industria alcoholera en España (Una aproximación cuantitativa. Industria alcoholera: crecimiento y modernización, alcoholes: fiscalidad y regulación, aguardientes y licores: un micro-sector de la industria de alimentación y bebidas). La industria alcoholera en Asturias (Destilación y bebidas espirituosas en Asturias: Una tradición...

Purpose This paper aims to model the efficiency of labour offices belonging to the public employment services (PESs) in Spain using a stochastic matching frontier approach. Design/methodology/approach With this aim in mind, the authors apply a random parameter model approach to control for observed and unobserved heterogeneity. Findings Results i...

1. Introducción y panorámica sociológica de la movilidad social y la transmisión intergeneracional de la pobreza 2. Fuentes de información para el análisis de la transmisión intergeneracional de la pobreza 3. La educación como correa de transmisión de la desigualdad 4. La persistencia intergeneracional de la pobreza y la exclusión 5. La transmisión...

The objective is to analyse how one’s place of residence affects the probability of finding a job and to measure the definition of the public jobcentre catchment area, which contributes to improving labour outcomes in the most deprived areas. We propose a multilevel model to estimate the probability of finding a job controlling for individual chara...

The Great Depression affected the Spanish economy, sharply increasing the number of unemployed workers, known as the ‘sin trabajo’. In an effort to address problems with the labour market, the Central Office for Job Placement and Defence against Unemployment was established in 1931 for the purpose, in Niceto Alcalá-Zamora’s words, of heading off ‘r...

Este artículo pretende 2 objetivos complementarios: analizar la evolución técnica e industrial de la construcción naval en Asturias, así como el relevo empresarial producido en el sector. Este último, referido a la quiebra de los «grandes» astilleros industriales de la bahía gijonesa (Cantábrico, Riera, Duro Felguera, Juliana…), pioneros de la indu...

This article analyzes the creation of schools in the municipality of Valdés (Asturias) during the first third of the 20th century. It is worth noting the protagonist role played by residents in the materialization of access to education for their children. The residents themselves incurred part of the construction costs of the buildings and even do...

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The dramatic growth of unemployment figures in Spain during the economic downturn has increased policies fostering entrepreneurship, particularly among the youth. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of a Spanish programme fostering self-employment among unemployed youth workers. We use an administrative dataset (the Continuous Working L...

This chapter provides an overview of the different approaches used to determine the location and size of cultural facilities that benefit local residents. Recent research demonstrates the importance of the causal relationship between the existence of cultural facilities and location choices of home seekers in urban areas. We focus on the determinan...

La Gran Depresión afectó a la economía española disparando el número de los llamados «sin trabajo». Con el objetivo de atajar los problemas del mercado laboral en 1931 se creaba la Oficina Central de Colocación y de Defensa contra el Paro con la finalidad –en palabras de Niceto Alcalá-Zamora– de solventar los «lamentables apasionamientos y extravío...

The correlation of economic, social and educational achievements between generations of the same family is a matter of great interest for the analysis of equal opportunities in society. The aim of this article is to quantify the impact and extent of the intergenerational transmission of poverty in Spain. Using data from the specific module on the i...

Self-employment is usually associated with entrepreneurship and it is often promoted as a way of reducing unemployment. Our aim in this article is to analyse the relationship between self-employment and unemployment taking into account its spatial dimension. The entrepreneur activity in each region depends not only on its own endowment but the entr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the influence of public employment services (PES) on transitions from unemployment. Design/methodology/approach – The likelihood of exit from unemployment is explained by a multinomial logit model which takes into account the target state of the transition (unemployment, employment or inactivity)....

The main goal of this study is to determine the effects of socio-economic, demographic and land-use factors on long-distance travel. Intercity trips are not very frequent activities, which caused a large share of the survey respon-dents to report zero kilometres travelled. The Double Hurdle Model, Infrequent Purchase Model and Heckman Selection Mod...

Self-employment has become an important source of employment in the last decades. Moreover governments have developed labour market programmes in order to foster self-employment. The capitalisation of unemployment benefits is a Spanish programme that gives the unemployed people the possibility to receive the contributory unemployment benefits in a...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the accessibility of public employment services (PES) offices and unemployment rates in large urban areas of Spain. In total, there are 85 large urban areas in Spain encompassing 747 municipalities or 9.2% of all Spanish municipalities; 21 of these large urban areas are composed of just o...

This paper focuses on the differences in the levels of accessibility to public employment offices in the Spanish municipalities. Hence the main purpose is to evaluate the role of the public employment services in local labour markets by considering the physical distance to employment offices and the spatial structure of their catchment areas. First...