We analyze the determining factors of access to non-formal professional training in Spain and their evolution in recent years. Specifically, a comparison is made between a moment during a period of economic growth (2007) and the current crisis period (2012). The data used is from the Economically Active Population Survey....

This paper analyses the impact of teacher gender towards students’ test results in a blinded Math test administered to students in Catalonia (Spain). The data for this analysis are drawn from a sample of secondary school students who participated in an international blind-test known as the “Mathematical Kangaroo” in 2008....

Les estadístiques més utilitzades per analitzar el mercat de treball proporcionen les variacions netes en el nombre de treballadors empleats (o aturats). Per exemple, observem una caiguda en la desocupació de 10 mil persones que pot deure’s tant al fet que es creen 10 mil llocs de treball i que...

In line with the literature that considers that transaction costs, asset specificity and incomplete contracts play a key role in the “make or buy decision”, this paper seeks to discriminate the characteristics of firms that make them more or less likely to integrate their activities in a foreign country. We...

This paper estimates the impact of BMI, obesity and overweight on direct medical costs. We apply panel data econometrics and use a two-part model with a longitudinal dataset of medical and administrative records of patients in primary and secondary healthcare centres in Spain followed up over seven consecutive years (2004-...

A partir de la seva primera edició, al 2000, el programa d’avaluació educativa PISA, de l’Organització per a la Cooperació i el Desenvolupament (OCDE), ha suposat, probablement, el principal factor d’“agitació” de les polítiques educatives. Això és així des d’almenys tres punts de vista: el mediàtic, el dels processos de...