This paper contributes to the empirical literature on pensions and saving by studying the influence of funded pension systems on the gross national saving rate using a sample of 48 developed and developing countries over the 1980-2004 period. To the…

Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human…

En los últimos años se ha asistido a un gran desarrollo del campo disciplinar de la Administración que se trasunta especialmente en el incremento en el número de carreras universitarias que se ocupan de sus distintas especialidades a nivel de…

En el presente estudio se analizan los proyectos productivos apoyados por el Programa 3x1 Para Migrantes en Zacatecas durante el periodo 2002-2007 a fin de determinar dentro del concepto de cultura emprendedora la identificación del giro en que les agradaría…

The quantity of exports is a decisive factor of prosperity or tardiness of a region, since as well as in International trade, exportations determine the volume of importations; those regions that have their exportations promoted will be benefited to a…

Increasing attention to higher education policies in the knowledge-based society makes important to understand the relationship between socio-economic family characteristics and educational choices. This paper considers the decision to go to college in Argentina as a family's economic decision. The…

The institutionalism is an orientation of American economics, which, abandoning the pure classical theory and the deductive methods, stays in opposition to the mathematical school of the marginal utility. Its adepts insist on an empirical, exact description of the social…

The study of the economic systems based on the analysis of the typical estructures of a region, will allow improve the disposition of economic policy inspired in a sounder and deeper knowledge of the economic schemas of the region.

At present we are living in a time where extraordinary things happen which rapidly change thereby creating tensions that give rise to different forms of conduct according to how we face up periods of inflation, war or State interventions. The…

Considering as young countries those parts of the world which were occupied and to some extent populated as a result of "Europe's expansion", which began with the discovery of America and extended to Australia, New Zeeland and some parts of…