Organismes i activitats interuniversitàries: Recent submissions
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A territorial approach to R&D subsidies: Empirical evidence for Catalonian firms
Using a database of 2,263 responses to R&D public calls in Catalonia, during the period 2007–2010, this paper proceeds to analyse the potential interaction of the territorial and policy dimensions with the propensity to ...
D’espai per a llibres a espai per a usuaris: una antiga caserna militar com a resposta a la manca d’espai
A començament del segle XXI algunes biblioteques universitàries catalanes van detectar una necessitat per la manca d'espais i la reconversió de les biblioteques físiques dins el nou panorama educatiu europeu. Amb el mateix ...
From room for books to room for users: an old infantry barrack as an answer to the lack of space
At the beginning of the 21st century, some Catalan university libraries detected a need stemming from the lack of space and the reconversion of physical libraries within the new European educational panorama. With the same ...
Are we wasting our talent? Overqualification and overskilling among PhD graduates
Drawing on a very rich data set from a recent cohort of PhD graduates, we examine the correlates and consequences of qualification and skills mismatch. We show that job characteristics such as the economic sector and the ...
Job accessibility, employment and job-education mismatch in the metropolitan area of Barcelona
This paper analyses the effect of job accessibility by public and private transport on labour market outcomes in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Beyond employment, we consider the effect of job accessibility on ...
Optimal stop-loss reinsurance: a dependence analysis
The stop-loss reinsurance is one of the most important reinsurance contracts in the insurance market. From the insurer point of view, it presents an interesting property: it is optimal if the criterion of minimizing the ...
La importancia del control de los costes de la no-calidad en la empresa
Una gran parte de las empresas de todo el mundo, y especialmente las PYMES occidentales, están perdiendo mucho dinero, y como consecuencia de ello gran parte de su competitividad potencial, debido a que los costes totales ...
Spatial Polarization of the Ecological Footprint distribution
The international allocation of natural resources is determined, not by any ethical or ecological criteria, but by the dominance of market mechanisms. From a core-periphery perspective, this allocation may even be driven ...
Are we living longer but less healthy? Trends in mortality and morbidity in Catalonia (Spain), 1994-2011
Evidence on trends in prevalence of disease and disability can clarify whether countries are experiencing a compression or expansion of morbidity. An expansion of morbidity as indicated by disease have appeared in Europe ...
Testing extreme value copulas to estimate the quantile
Testing weather or not data belongs could been generated by a family of extreme value copulas is difficult. We generalize a test and we prove that it can be applied whatever the alternative hypothesis. We also study the ...
The Impact of Cooperation on R&D, Innovation andProductivity: an Analysis of Spanish Manufacturing and Services Firms
This paper investigates relationships between cooperation, R&D, innovation and productivity in Spanish firms. It uses a large sample of firm-level micro-data and applies an extended structural model that aims to explain ...
Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language ...
How market access shapes human capital investment in a peripheral country
Human capital endowment is one of the main factors influencing the level of development of a region. This paper analyses whether remoteness from economic activity has a negative effect on human capital accumulation and, ...
Preservació digital al núvol
Ara que ja ningú qüestiona les publicacions digitals, l'accés obert o els repositoris de tipus institucional o temàtic, cal co-mençar a treballar en els temes de preservació. Som responsables d'assegurar l'accés i l'ús ...
Del prestatge a la web: la transformació de la formació de les col·leccions a les biblioteques universitàries
L’existència d’una xarxa mundial de comunicacions ubiqua i barata que cada vegada més permet obtenir documents de manera fàcil i gratuïta requerirà una transformació de les pràctiques de la formació de col·leccions a les ...
