Hintzmann Colominas, Carolina (Date of defense: 2015-10-09)
The main objective of the present thesis is to analyze the underperformance of labour productivity growth in manufacturing in EU member states and the existence of persistent differences among them in ...
Davtyan, Karen (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)
The general objective of the doctoral thesis is to evaluate the distributive effects of macroeconomic policies. In particular, the thesis assesses the distributional impact of fiscal policy, conventional ...
Nieto Viramontes, Sandra (Date of defense: 2014-09-26)
Investment in human capital is a key tool for the social and economic progress in every country. Thus one of the most important public policies in the last century has focused on increasing the level ...
Choi, Hoon (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
This thesis provides an analysis of the problems associated with the dual labor market structure and credentialism in Korea. In Chapter 2, I evaluate the effectiveness of an education policy in Korea ...
Vega Núñez, Adriana Patricia (Date of defense: 2018-10-18)
The dissertation deals with the analysis of informality in developing countries considering both the worker’s and the firm’s perspective. Within a context of a strong presence of this phenomenon in the ...
Melguizo Cháfer, Celia (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
This thesis analyses the impact of the recession on the regional labour markets in Spain by considering three different aspects: the regional unemployment sensitivity to economic variations, the minimum ...
Tello de la Torre, Claudia (Date of defense: 2012-12-04)
El objetivo de la tesis es analizar la desigualdad y la movilidad salarial en México en el periodo de 1987 a 2008. La tesis está dividida en cinco partes. En el Capítulo 1 se plantean la introducción y ...
Hajdukovic, Ivan (Date of defense: 2021-07-08)
The general objective of the doctoral thesis is to evaluate the effects of macroeconomic policies on the economy and the environment. Chapter 2 examines the composition of fiscal policy and its transmission ...
Bartoll, Xavier (Date of defense: 2019-09-26)
The main objective of the thesis, organised along four different research chapters, is to analyse how labour market conditions are associated with different health outcomes and how the economic crisis ...