El acoso sexual en el trabajo es un problema frecuente que afecta gravemente el bienestar, la satisfacción laboral y el desarrollo profesional de los empleados, en particular de las mujeres. En Francia, una de cada tres mujeres será víctima de este acoso a lo largo de su carrera. El movimiento...

This paper studies the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 Spanish pension reform, which affected the general population and exogenously changed the early retirement age, depending on the date individuals started contributing to the pension system. Using the Spanish administrative data, we find that...

This paper investigates the causal link between healthcare access and intimate partner violence (IPV) victims’ help-seeking behavior. Access to healthcare serves as a critical avenue for screening or detecting IPV. Doctors are legally mandated to report suspected criminal injuries to the authorities and can guide victims towards IPV support services....

During the past two decades, several factors have challenged the stability of na-tional states, adding tensions to the connection between the state and the individual. This paper reviews the literature on state capacity. First, it introduces the origin of the literature and presents the well-established positive correlation between state ca-pacity...

La sequera és un període extens de temps en el qual un territori pateix una deficiència en el subministrament d’aigua. Normalment, n’és la causa principal la poca continuïtat de les precipitacions pluvials (sequera meteorològica), que pot comportar, de forma diferida en el temps, una insuficiència dels recursos hídrics (sequera hidrològica)...

Decentralized fiscal decision-making should serve to enhance welfare by promoting allocative efficiency gains and fostering greater political accountability. Within such an institutional framework, individuals are assumed to be willing to pay, at least, no less taxes than those they pay in a centralized system. We test this hypothesis by means...