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An ex-post view of inequality of opportunity in France and its regions
This paper proposes an ex-post measure of inequality of opportunity in France and its regions by assessing the inequality between individuals exerting the same effort. To this end, we define a fair income that fulfils ...
Violència i futbol
Aquest treball es va realitzar per a l'assignatura Campus "Olimpisme, Esport i Societat" durant el curs 1996-97 i es proposa investigar quins són els desencadenants d'una violència en una activitat que, en principi, és una ...
Shifting death to their alternatives : the case of toll motorways
A renewed interest on the use of tolls for funding motorways and regulating their demands has been recovered in the last years. However, less attention has been put to the road safety effects derived from this policy. ...
Local production system in Bologna
The project FLOWS: Impact of local welfare systems on femalelabour force participation and social cohesion has been funded under the EU FP7 program, grant Agreement no: 266806
Competition effects of intercity bus tendering reforms in Spain
Spain operates a 'competition for the market' system to award the regulated monopoly rights to run intercity bus services across its different regions. Such tendering system has undergone different changes since 2007. We ...
When a love story ends : which biographies become relevant?
Comunicació presentada a la XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference. Marrakech (Marroc), 27 de setembre - 2 d'octubre de 2009.
Indirect contagion : the policy problem
with substantial contributions from Iñaki Aldasoro, Silvia Gabrieli, Henrik Hansen,Alex Hodbod, Heinrich Kick, Falk Mazelis and Guillaume Vuillemey
Haciendo frente a la pobreza : estrategias familiares y actividad femenina en Barcelona, 1930-1950
The objective of this paper is to analyze the evolution of the occupation of a group of women who belonged to the poorest sector of the working class in Barcelona between 1930 and 1950, a particularly relevant period ...
Tax incentives and direct support for R&D : What do firms use and why?
This paper studies whether firms' use of R&D subsidies and R&D tax incentives is correlated to two sources of underinvestment in R&D, financing constraints and appropriability. We find that financially constrained SMEs are ...
Debt and deficit fluctuations and the structure of bond markets
We analyse the implications of optimal taxation for the stochastic behaviour of debt. We show that when a government pursues an optimal fiscal policy under complete markets, the value of debt has the same or less persistence ...
Employment descentralisation : polycentric compaction or sprawl? The case of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region 1986-1996
The Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) has been repeatedly characterised as a polycentric-type urban system. The aim of this study is to corroborate this affirmation by making use of a methodology that enables the identifying ...
Institutional reforms to integrate regulation and competition policy : economic analysis, international perspectives, and the case of the CNMC in Spain
We review the related academic literature and the international evidence on the institutions of regulation and competition policy, to analyze the creation in 2013 of the new macro regulator in Spain, the CNMC. The institutional ...
Socioeconomic and other determinants of mortality differences in Europe : a pooled, cross-country, time-series analysis
Aquest treball s'ha realitzat en el marc del projecte Marie Curie Fellowships Training Sites "Demography, Family and Spatial Redistribution. A Southern European Perspective (DEMOS)"
Calculation of the variance in surveys of the economic climate
Public opinion surveys have become progressively incorporated into systems of official statistics. Surveys of the economic climate are usually qualitative because they collect opinions of businesspeople and/or experts about ...
Parental education and family characteristics : educational opportunities across cohorts in Italy and Spain
Drawing on data contained in the 2005 EU-SILC, this paper investigates the disparities in educational opportunities in Italy and Spain. Its main objective is to analyse the predicted probabilities of successfully completing ...
Comparing generalized median voter schemes according to their manipulability
We propose a simple criterion to compare generalized median voter schemes according to their manipulability. We identify three nec- essary and sufficient conditions for the comparability of two generalized median voter ...
