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The main objective of this work is to create an environmental vision of the Catalan economy based on various indicators. To do this, we started from the fundamental idea of obtaining new metrics to measure impacts on the economy. The methodology used is focused on the systematization of descriptive statistics and econometric review. In this sense, GDP and GDP per capita are valued as chrematistic units, and biophysical variables are incorporated. For the period 2000–2016, the figures for energy consumption, CO2 emissions, energy intensity of the economy and water consumption were collected. In addition, demographic evolution and the Gini index were also ordered as factors that contribute to explaining not only population trajectory but also some of the social factors. Greater technological efficiency in regard to environmental aspects is intuited as sensitive to the economic cycle. The study is novel in the panorama of the regional economy of Spain, by incorporating biophysical variables to the applied economic analysis.
Carles Manera; Eloi Serrano; José Pérez-Montiel; Màrian Buil-Fabregà. Construction of Biophysical Indicators for the Catalan Economy: Building a New Conceptual Framework. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7462 .
AMA StyleCarles Manera, Eloi Serrano, José Pérez-Montiel, Màrian Buil-Fabregà. Construction of Biophysical Indicators for the Catalan Economy: Building a New Conceptual Framework. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7462.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarles Manera; Eloi Serrano; José Pérez-Montiel; Màrian Buil-Fabregà. 2021. "Construction of Biophysical Indicators for the Catalan Economy: Building a New Conceptual Framework." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7462.
This paper explores the labour management of hotel chains during the Spanish tourism boom, a period characterized by high labour shortages. Focusing on the behaviour of three prominent emerging hotel chains in the Balearic Islands, we adopt a micro-comparative approach to examine their payrolls. Our findings suggest that the economic and geographical characteristics of the areas where they operated were crucial to their decisions. Firms located in populated areas developed channels of seasonal labour that supplied migrant workers through chain migration and kinship links. Conversely, firms in areas of intense landscape transformation pursued recruitment at origin in specific towns on mainland Spain or in foreign countries. This strategy played a key role in the development of new international tourism destinations.
José Antonio García-Barrero; Carles Manera Erbina. The management of labour recruitment: The hotel chains during the Spanish tourism boom, 1959–1973. Annals of Tourism Research 2020, 86, 103086 .
AMA StyleJosé Antonio García-Barrero, Carles Manera Erbina. The management of labour recruitment: The hotel chains during the Spanish tourism boom, 1959–1973. Annals of Tourism Research. 2020; 86 ():103086.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJosé Antonio García-Barrero; Carles Manera Erbina. 2020. "The management of labour recruitment: The hotel chains during the Spanish tourism boom, 1959–1973." Annals of Tourism Research 86, no. : 103086.
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Jose Perez-Montiel; Carles Manera Erbina. Erratum: Perez-Montiel, J.; Manera Erbina, C. Investment Sustained by Consumption: A Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4381. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4430 .
AMA StyleJose Perez-Montiel, Carles Manera Erbina. Erratum: Perez-Montiel, J.; Manera Erbina, C. Investment Sustained by Consumption: A Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4381. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (11):4430.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJose Perez-Montiel; Carles Manera Erbina. 2020. "Erratum: Perez-Montiel, J.; Manera Erbina, C. Investment Sustained by Consumption: A Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4381." Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4430.
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between consumption and investment in the United States between 1947 and 2018. Our findings support the postulates of Keynesian economics—while they are contrary to the theoretic background on which the numerous empirical studies on the saving-investment nexus are based. We find a long-run nexus between consumption and investment, and positive linear Granger-causality running unidirectionally from consumption to investment. Therefore, investment is sustained by consumption. Further, we find that the variables have nonlinear structures and, thus, we apply nonlinear causality tests. We provide evidence of nonlinear causality running unidirectionally from consumption to investment. Nevertheless, after controlling for Government Expenditure, this nonlinear causal relationship disappears, indicating that Government Expenditure drives the nonlinear causal relationship between private consumption and investment. We argue that this finding is consistent with the notion that investment decisions are guided by permanent aggregate demand, because public expenditure allows private consumption to have a sufficiently permanent trajectory to be considered as a guide for investment decisions. Our results do not support the austerity and deflation measures implemented in the last years (especially in the European Union). On the other hand, our findings call for the incentive of final public expenditure, since it favours the long-run link between the private decisions to consume and invest.
Jose Perez-Montiel; Carles Manera Erbina. Investment Sustained by Consumption: A Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4381 .
AMA StyleJose Perez-Montiel, Carles Manera Erbina. Investment Sustained by Consumption: A Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (16):4381.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJose Perez-Montiel; Carles Manera Erbina. 2019. "Investment Sustained by Consumption: A Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis." Sustainability 11, no. 16: 4381.
The work emphasizes the importance of measuring the tourist intensity of the economies that are oriented to tourism activity, with the aim of avoiding subjective arguments and being more related to perception than with the empirical contrast of the data. A tourist intensity index is proposed, which is made up of four essential variables: GDP, tourist spending, population, and the number of tourists. However, at the same time, it is complemented by a measure of tourist density, which helps to better understand the proposed index. This allows for the classification of countries according to the resulting index, and to calibrate their position in the set of tourist economies. This can be very useful for the application of economic policies aimed at correcting externalities that are generated in the advanced development of mass tourism.
Carles Manera; Elisabeth Valle. Tourist Intensity in the World, 1995–2015: Two Measurement Proposals. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4546 .
AMA StyleCarles Manera, Elisabeth Valle. Tourist Intensity in the World, 1995–2015: Two Measurement Proposals. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (12):4546.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarles Manera; Elisabeth Valle. 2018. "Tourist Intensity in the World, 1995–2015: Two Measurement Proposals." Sustainability 10, no. 12: 4546.
Carles Manera. Mediterranean. Encyclopedia of Tourism 2016, 603 -605.
AMA StyleCarles Manera. Mediterranean. Encyclopedia of Tourism. 2016; ():603-605.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarles Manera. 2016. "Mediterranean." Encyclopedia of Tourism , no. : 603-605.
Carles Manera. Mediterranean, tourism. Encyclopedia of Tourism 2015, 1 -3.
AMA StyleCarles Manera. Mediterranean, tourism. Encyclopedia of Tourism. 2015; ():1-3.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarles Manera. 2015. "Mediterranean, tourism." Encyclopedia of Tourism , no. : 1-3.