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    Regional income inequality in Mexico, 1895-2010 

    Aguilar Retureta, José (Date of defense: 2016-04-05)

    The motivation of this dissertation is multi-fold. Firstly, regional income disparity is widely considered to be a central concern among economists and policy makers. This responds to many facts. Usually, when regional ...

    Socio Ecological Transition of Organic Agricultures in Catalonia (late 19th-20th century) 

    Galán del Castillo, Elena (Date of defense: 2015-02-27)

    The main motivation of this dissertation is to add the environmental dimension to the Economic History of the changes in agriculture in Catalonia since the late 19th century. According to this, we speak in ...

    Tax System and Redistribution: the Spanish Fiscal Transition (1960-1990) 

    Torregrosa-Hetland, Sara (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)

    This thesis analyses the Spanish tax system between 1960 and 1990, with special attention to the developments in progressivity, redistribution and inequality. It addresses the reforms that took place during the transition ...