Goulart, Kimberly (Date of defense: 2023-05-23)
The objective of this thesis is to explore what makes up a job–the tasks, skills, personality traits, and rewards–and determine how a job impacts our daily lives. Much of the literature quantifies and ...
Jiménez Iglesias, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-12-13)
This doctoral thesis studies class-based social movements as a response to the collapse of the Spanish mode of capital accumulation, based on the financialization of housing and the extraction of rents. ...
Sönmez, İbrahim (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
This PhD dissertation addresses how stress regarding one’s sexual identity relates to health-related adverse outcomes. It is composed of four articles. The first one examines how internalized ...
Giangregorio, Luca (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)
The following thesis aims to provide a general picture of to what extent different important sources – at the macro and the micro level – affect income inequality over time. Indeed, given the natural ...
De Freitas, João (Date of defense: 2021-05-10)
This thesis explores a peculiar phenomenon of urban governance: namely, the recent rise of strategic city planning. Over the last decades, a growing number of cities adopted strategic plans that—following ...
Dereli, Begüm (Date of defense: 2021-11-11)
This thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of higher education in refugees’ integration by focusing on urban refugees’ experiences who ...
Costa, Josep (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This thesis develops normative arguments about nationalism in multinational contexts. It draws consequences from the arguments used by advocates of nationalism, and analyzes their implications for a ...
Palomo Lario, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This doctoral dissertation analyses the differences between young people with an immigrant background and natives (without an immigrant background) in educational expectations and the educational pathways ...
Portugal Celaya, Bolívar Gerardo (Date of defense: 2020-12-03)
This thesis investigates the Mexican regulatory reforms focusing on the evolution of the institutional arrangements of the regulatory state across policy regimes. It is based on a qualitative research ...
Soler Pastor, Elia (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
This dissertation explores the structure and impacts of culturally diversifying experiences, on a series of intra- and interpersonal outcomes. It extends prior research by using diverse conceptualizations ...