Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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My dissertation aims to improve our understanding of why and how couple dynamics and marital transitions affect four critical economic outcomes: household savings, labour supply, transition to self-employment and income ...
This PhD thesis analyzes the conceptual frames underpinning discourses on language for immigrant integration to understand their rationale, evolution and structuring effects. Analyzed from a multilevel perspective – state ...
Major socio-economic and demographic changes have occurred in Europe during the last decades which have challenged the gender specialization of tasks and time. Nonetheless, inequalities in the distribution of paid and ...
In this thesis, I contribute to answering the questions of what children need and what parents owe to them. To make this contribution, I discuss three fundamental goods that children arguably need to have a flourishing ...
This research project assesses the role played by political sophistication in terms of itsimpact on the voters’ resort to cognitive shortcuts, with reference both to the consciousand non-conscious components of voting ...
Aquesta tesi vol respondre a dos preguntes fonamentals en l'àrea de recerca de la migració transnacional: s'impliquen els immigrants en el transnacionalisme polític? I, quins són els factors determinants del seu activisme ...
This thesis is focused on studying the causes and consequences of political professionalisation, by analyzing empirically the cross-country differences. Despite the literature claiming that political professionalisation ...
Is there a relationship between political participation and individual life satisfaction? The idea that political participation makes people more satisfied with their lives has long been debated. However, the existing ...
The general purpose of this thesis is to analyse in which ways the social context—particularly, the intermediation of political information through interpersonal discussion networks—conditions citizens’ attitudes and ...
This dissertation explores the social determinants of international migration between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe from approximately 1970-2008. The study begins by focusing on Senegalese migration to Europe (France, ...
Esta tesis estudia la sobre-educación en el mercado de trabajo en España y el Reino Unido. Utilizando la base de datos Labor Force Survey primero se investiga si la sobre-educación tiene una influencia significativa sobre ...
Over the last decades, fathers are getting involved in their children’s lives. The “New Fathers” are not expected to act as breadwinners but also to engage in their family life and take a similar responsibility than their ...
This dissertation seeks to expand and refine our understanding of sex-segregation in the labor market. The rapid changes in women’s roles that have taken place in recent decades have made traditional explanations incapable ...
This thesis touches upon three subjects within international migration, namely: immigrants’ labour market incorporation, dynamics of remittances behaviour, and the role of migrant networks as an underlying mechanism of ...
The trade agenda has undergone significant transformations during the last 25 years. Negotiations have moved from the reciprocal reduction of tariff barriers to include the construction and harmonization of regulatory ...
This work is set around three empirical papers concerned with the political foundations and consequences of trust among people. The first one addresses the question of how trust evolves and whether this is shaped by ...
Advanced societies have witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and technological changes in the last 50 years. The growth of the service sector has transformed the class structure, and social mobility has increased for ...
The three chapters included in this dissertation aim to improve our understanding of the distance between people's desires regarding the timing and the number of children they want to have and what they finally achieve. ...
This thesis is focused on the nationalization of party systems in Western Europe and combines four different approaches. Despite the literature claiming that political decentralization reduces party system nationalization, ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically investigate the theoretical perspective that political power derives from socioeconomic power—a fundamental tenet of both sociological theories of assimilation and ...
