Articles publicats Departament d'Economia: Enviaments recents
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Differences between short and long break tourists in urban destinations: the case of Barcelona
Short break trips in urban destinations are clearly increasing, and this fact has implications for destinations linked to the different length of stay segments. Thus, this paper analyses the duration of the stay in relation ...
Social capital as cause and consequence of rural touristic development: The case of Lindoso (Portugal)
This paper seeks to deepen research on the relationship established between social capital and tourism, namely on the less explored aspect of the reciprocity in this relationship; in other words, the forms by which social ...
Sustainable Development through CSR in Human Resource Management Practices: The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Job Quality
This article focuses on sustainable development and human resource management (HRM). It analyzes the effects of the economic crisis on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the management of employees and its determinants, ...
Los Programas de Igualdad de Género en el Sector Hotelero: Revisión Crítica de la Situación en Cataluña
The presence of invisible male standards in the organizations determines their culture and their functional and operational policies. Therefore, the current agendas of these organizations are determined by the 17 Sustainable ...
Analytical images of political trust in times of global challenges: the case of Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland
The main aim of this paper is to disentangle the understanding of political trust by analysing its determinants and trends in specific global crisis circumstances. Two fundamental perspectives of understandings of political ...
Mortality of women with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast: a population-based study from the Girona province, Spain (1994–2013)
We aim to comprehensively describe the incidence and mortality trends of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in the Girona province, Spain (1994–2013) and to estimate the all-cause mortality excess risk of diagnosed women. ...
Socially responsible HR practices and their effects on employees’ wellbeing: Empirical evidence from Catalonia, Spain
Corporate social responsibility towards employees has been promoted by international organizations that produced recommendations, conventions, principles and other documents to enhance job quality and wellbeing at work. ...
Análisis de los perfiles de corta y larga duración de los turistas de ocio de Barcelona = Analysis of short and long break profiles of leisure tourists in Barcelona
This article analyses the effect of the length of stay in relation to the constructs of motivation, satisfaction, image, repetition and recommendation. The theoretical model is based on the literature and uses structural ...
A New Fiji-Based Algorithm That Systematically Quantifies Nine Synaptic Parameters Provides Insights into Drosophila NMJ Morphometry
The morphology of synapses is of central interest in neuroscience because of the intimate relation with synaptic efficacy. Two decades of gene manipulation studies in different animal models have revealed a repertoire of ...
Differences in residents' attitudes towards tourism among mass tourism destinations
This article contributes to extant knowledge by analysing differences in the attitudes towards tourism of residents living in several micro-destinations (cities) within a larger tourism destination and by using a new ...
An analysis of CSR in human resource management practices and its impact on employee job satisfaction in Catalonia, Spain
Incorporating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into HRM may be a way of integrating employee wellbeing within the workplace. This article provides an empirical analysis of the impact CSR human resource management ...
Importancia de la invariancia de medida de la confianza a través del tiempo: el caso de España = Importance of Measurement Invariance of Trust over Time: the Spanish Case
Social trust and political trust are, amongst others, key social capital factors. This paper examines the accuracy of their measurement and comparability across different time periods. Multiple-group confi rmatory factor ...
Incidence variation of prostate and cervical cancer according to socioeconomic level in the Girona Health Region
The main aim of this study, using a spatial-temporal model, is to analyse the link between a deprivation index and the incidence of prostate and cervical cancer in the Girona Health Region (GHR). Methods This is a ...
Evaluation of the interval cancer rate and its determinants on the Girona health region’s early breast cancer detection program
The main aim of this study is to estimate the rate of false negative and true IC on the Program for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer (PEDBC) run by the Girona Health Region (GHR) and compare the clinicopathological ...
Turistas entre monumentos: el comportamiento de los visitantes en el centro histórico de Girona (2003 y 2013)
Este artículo presenta los resultados de estudiar el comportamiento de los visitantes en espacios monumentales (año 2013) a partir de combinar diversos métodos de estudio (observación directa no participada, cuestionarios, ...
Determinants in tourist expenditure composition: the role of airline types
The reduction in transportation costs when travelling with a low-cost airline (LCA) seems to have modified the composition of the trip budget. An understanding of expenditure composition when comparing LCA and legacy airline ...
40 years after Aitchison's article 'The statistical analysis of compositional data': where we are and where we are heading
The year 2022 marked 40 years since Aitchison published the article 'The statistical analysis of compositional data'. It is considered to be the foundation of contemporary compositional data analysis. It is time to review ...
Corporate social responsibility and financial profile of Spanish private hospitals
In the context of the recent economic crisis, the financial situation of the Spanish health sector has become a major concern for responsible actors from the public and private spheres, because of a decline in public ...
Air Quality Trend of PM10: Statistical Models for Assessing the Air Quality Impact of Environmental Policies
A statistical modelling of PM10 concentration (2006–2015) is applied to understand the behaviour, to know the influence of the variables to exposure risk, to treat the missing data to evaluate air quality, and to estimate ...
Duration and dosing of Proton Pump Inhibitors associated with high incidence of chronic kidney disease in population-based cohort
Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) have been associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Our objective was to quantify the association between PPI use and incident CKD in a population-based cohort. Methods and findings We ...
