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L'estudi sociodemogràfic de la inactivitat laboral femenina, a Espanya, en funció de l'origen
Comunicació presentada en el V Congrés Català de Sociologia. Immigració i Societat Catalana. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 17 i 18 d'abril de 2009.
Participation of immigrants in the European Union's national labour markets in a context of complementarity : substitution and competition with local labour force
The aim of this paper is to explain how complementarity between national and immigrant labour forces works across activity sectors in the EU Member States. This territorial and sectorial analysis allow us to differentiate ...
Causal effects of air pollution on child health : evidence from a low-pollution setting
To what extent does air pollution in low-pollution settings affect children's health? Which children benefit most from further reductions, and what factors moderate this relationship? We address these questions using the ...
Equality of opportunity in four measures of well-being
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policymakers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when designing policies ...
Parametric and semiparametric estimation of sample selection models : an empirical application to the female labour force in Portugal
This comment corrects the errors in the estimation process that appear in Martins (2001). The first error is in the parametric probit estimation, as the previously presented results do not maximize the log-likelihood ...
Corrigendum : stable matchings and preferences of couples
We correct an omission in the definition of the domain of weakly responsive preferences introduced in Klaus and Klijn (2005) or KK05 for short. The proof of the existence of stable matchings (KK05, Theorem 3.3) and a maximal ...
Factores determinantes de la participación de las mujeres como promotoras de proyectos LEADER+
Como es bien sabido, uno de los objetivos de las políticas de desarrollo rural en la UE es aumentar la participación de las mujeres en el mercado de trabajo y fomentar su participación en la promoción de proyectos en el ...
La custòdia compartida : un pas més cap a la igualtat de gènere?
Les dades publicades per l'Institut Nacional d'Estadística (INE) mostren que, des de 2011, hi ha una forta estabilitat en la xifra de divorcis -situada al voltant dels 100 mil anuals, en la meitat dels quals hi ha fills/es ...
Una revisión crítica al concepto de población vinculada según el censo de población de 2001 : una aplicación a Catalunya
El censo de población de 2001 implica, entre otros cambios, la sustitución de la tradicional «población de hecho» por el nuevo concepto de «población vinculada», con el fin de subsanar los errores e interpretaciones equívocas ...
A comparison of input-output models : ghosh reduces to leontief (but "closing" ghosh makes it more plausible)
Ghosh's model is discussed in this paper under two alternative scenarios. In an open version we compare it with Leontief's model and prove that they reduce to each other under some specific productive conditions. We then ...
Sequential formation of coalitions through bilateral agreements
We study a sequential protocol of endogenous coalition formation based on a process of bilateral agreements among the players. We apply the game to a Cournot environment with linear demand and constant average costs. We ...
Longitudinal Analysis of entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America
This study analyzes the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics in Latin-American countries and the level of competitiveness these countries show. Based on the research conducted by Wennekers et al. (2005) that ...
The Samurai Bond : credit supply and economic growth in pre-war Japan
While credit supply growth is associated with exacerbating financial crises, its impact on long-run development is unclear. Using bond payments to samurai in nineteenth century Japan as a quasi-natural experiment and ...
Les visites familiars a presos com a element reductor de la reincidència
L'objectiu d'aquesta recerca consisteix a analitzar la relació entre les visites de familiars i la posterior reincidència dels interns de les presons catalanes, per poder examinar si, tal i com sembla corroborar la recerca ...
Manipulation via endowments in exchange markets with indivisible goods
We consider exchange markets with heterogeneous indivisible goods. We are interested in exchange rules that are efficient and immune to manipulations via endowments (either with respect to hiding or destroying part of the ...
