Articles publicats Departament d'Economia: Recent submissions
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Diferencias de precios en el sector hotelero según el canal de comercialización
El objetivo del presente artículo es identificar si existen diferencias de precios según elcanal de comercialización en el sector hotelero del segmento vacacional de «sol y playa». Enconcreto se analiza si ...
Posicionament de l'oferta hotelera de les principals destinacions turístiques catalanes i espanyoles
This article studies hotels' supply placeman in the main "beach and sun" Spanish tourism resorts in a two-dimensional space. The first dimension, "quality-adjusted price", take into acount the price paid in each other ...
Biodiversidad y contabilidad: Metodología composicional en el análisis contable del sector apícola
The decline of pollinators affects biodiversity and food security, and preserving the beekeeping industry derives from the European Commission "new deal for pollinators, 2023". The health of bees conditions the financial ...
Ocean literacy in managing marine protected areas: bridging natural and cultural heritage
This study explores the factors driving the integration of ocean literacy into the management of Marine Protected Areas, highlighting its role as a powerful tool to transform the human-ocean relationship to improve ...
Understanding Return to Work After a Cancer-Related Sickness Absence. Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators Among all Relevant Stakeholders
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the themes acting as barriers or facilitators, from diagnosis and sickness absence (SA) to RTW and work retention, after a cancer-related SA from the perspectives of all ...
Prenatal and Perinatal Factors Associated with Infant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: A Scoping Review
Objective: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most frequent childhood cancer. Infant ALL (<1 year) is rare, but it captures a lot of interest due to its poor prognosis, especially in patients harbouring KMT2A ...
Turning points in core-periphery displacement of systemic risk in the Eurozone: Constrained weighted compositional clustering
Investigating how systemic risk originates and spreads across the financial system poses an inherently compositional question, i.e. a question concerning the joint distribution of relative risk share across several ...
Weak pairwise justifiability as a common root of Arrow’s and the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorems
We introduce a novel principle that we call weak pairwise justifiability, which applies to a large class of collective choice rules, including the social choice functions and the social welfare functions about which the ...
Diferenciació econòmica, transmissió de l’ofici i acció col·lectiva. La manufactura tapera catalana (1750-1860) = Economic differentiation, craft transmission and collective action. The catalan cork stopper manufacture (1750-1860)
This article studies the rise and the charac-teristics of the social groups involved in the cork stopper manufacture during the first phase of its development from the eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. ...
Trabajo femenino asalariado y ciclo de vida en la industria corchera catalana, c. 1860-1920
This article studies the feminisation process of the cork industry in the Girona region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also reconstructs women's activity rates in 1920. The analysis of the life ...
Sustainable human resources management in crisis contexts: interaction of socially responsible labour practices for the wellbeing of employees
Periods of recession and economic crisis pose great challenges to companies committed to quality of work and by extension to their human resources (HR) departments. The need for adjustments can be a great opportunity for ...
Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies
Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat ...
Barcelona hotel employees and their conception of fair work. An exploratory study
Purpose: Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 and 8, respectively, indicate that decent work and gender equality are challenges that business organizations must face in order to achieve the social well-being and sustainable ...
Childcare restrictions and gender gap in labor outcomes
Purpose This study aims to contribute to the literature by examining the gender gap effects of childcare restrictions. Specifically, not using professional childcare services due to issues like access, quality or costs. ...
Air pollution and children's mental health in rural areas. Compositional spatio-temporal model
Air pollution stands as an environmental risk to child mental health, with proven relationships hitherto observed only in urban areas. Understanding the impact of pollution in rural settings is equally crucial. The novelty ...
Financial analysis of rural tourism in Catalonia and Galicia pre- and post COVID-19
This article analyses the financial health of Catalan and Galician rural tourism businesses between 2019 and 2021 by examining their profitability and solvency, in order to assess their survivability over the period affected ...
Multimorbidity patterns and disability and healthcare use in Europe: do the associations change with the regional socioeconomic status?
Multimorbidity, the concurrence of several chronic conditions, is a rising concern that increases the years lived with disability and poses a burden on healthcare systems. Little is known on how it interacts with socioeconomic ...
Nuevos métodos estadísticos composicionales para el análisis de ratios contables = Nous mètodes estadístics composicionals per a l'anàlisi de ràtios comptables
The use of standard accounting ratios on single firms is a powerful tool for diagnostics of their financial health. However, statistical analyses of accounting ratios of a sample of firms lead to a series of problems that ...
The role of summer markets in promoting authenticity and social sustainability of the regions: The case of La Santa market (Catalonia, Spain)
The greatest challenge for tourist destinations is to make themselves unique, to bet on cultural identity, with ethical values and sustainability, and to be successful over time. This is of particular interest in sun and ...
Tourists and ‘philosophers’: Nature as a medium to consciousness and transcendence in spiritual tourism
Nature is a vital context for transcendent experiences fostering the spiritual dimensions of humankind. Analysing data from protected areas in China, this paper investigates the ways in which spirituality permeates ...
