annual report - Ivie

above mentioned methodology; to update the estimates incorporating to the series the evolution of social capital
during the first decade of the 21st century; and to draw up a report that analyzes the relationship between the
economic crisis and the evolution of social capital.
Research team:
Francisco Pérez (dir.) (Ivie, Universitat de València)
Juan Fernández de Guevara Radoselovics (Ivie, Universitat de València)
Lorenzo Serrano (Ivie, Universitat de València)
Vicent Cucarella (Ivie)
Abel Fernández (Ivie, Universitat de València)
• HUMAN CAPITAL PROJECT (2012)
The Human Capital project, carried out by the Bancaja Foundation and the Ivie for some years now, has
resumed during 2012 its research on Human Capital and Human Development, which began in 2003. The
overall objective of the research has been to update the data bank that supports the project as well as to extend
the work done in previous editions (2003 and 2009) in two directions. It first presents the evolution of the
human development in Spain and its autonomous communities between 1980 and 2010, following a double
methodology. Through the methodology developed in the Human Development Report by the United Nations in
2010, the human development index (HDI) has been built for Spain and its regions for the said period. Also,
using a method developed by Carmen Herrero, Ricardo Martínez (University of Malaga) and Antonio Villar,
which respects the original construction of the HDI, appropriate changes have been made to avoid problems
and inconsistencies, and a new indicator has been built, the NHDI. This index has been estimated for Spain
and its autonomous communities for the 1980-2010 period. Secondly, following the United Nations
methodology for the measurement of poverty in its human development reports, an estimate of poverty in Spain
for the 2006-2011 period has been carried out, but changing the variable that measures the poverty of
education for another one that suits more the Spanish social reality.
Research team:
Carmen Herrero (Ivie, Universidad de Alicante)
Antonio Villar (Ivie, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Ángel Soler (Ivie, Universitat de València)
• HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES (2011-2012)
This report, prepared for the Cajas de Ahorros Foundation (Funcas), assesses the productivity in the public
services and the impact of the human resource management policies to improve it. The primary purpose of this
work has not been so much to quantify the level of productivity as to offer proposals that allow the evaluation of
various factors that compose it and make suggestions for improvements. Based on quantitative data and on the
experience of public administration experts and managers, the study analyzes the productivity of the public
sector. In addition, it distinguishes three levels of analysis, a transnational one by comparison with other
countries, another one referred to Spain, and the last one related to the productivity of specific governmental
organizations, units or departments. Particularly in this last level, it pays special attention to the different policies
and practices for the management and development of human resources in order to identify their potential
effects and implications for the productivity of civil servants and the units and government agencies in which
they work.
Research team:
José María Peiró (Ivie, Universitat de València)
José Ramos (Ivie, Universitat de València)
José Vicente Cortés (Diputación de Valencia)
Laura Hernández (Ivie)
Vicent Cucarella (Ivie)
46 Research and economic studies