Dynamics of well being among immigrants 

    Obućina, Ognjen (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)

    The broad objective of this thesis is to study the patterns of objective and subjective well-being among the immigrants in Europe. The main part of the thesis consists of three single-authored empirical chapters. The first ...

    Male unpaid work and female employment trajectories : a dynamic analysis 

    Seiz Puyuelo, Marta (Date of defense: 2014-04-07)

    This thesis analyzes whether there is an interdependence, at the intra-couple level, between men’s housework and childcare participation and women’s employment and economic position. The first empirical paper examines ...

    Measurement equivalence in multilingual comparative survey research 

    Zavala-Rojas, Diana (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)

    The present dissertation explores language effects in a comparative survey i.e. to what extent linguistic diversity affects equivalence in a comparative survey. This is done by studying three different dimensions on the ...

    Overeducation: incidence, persistence and institutional differences across countries: the influence of field of study and social origin on graduates' overeducation risk 

    Capsada-Munsech, Queralt (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)

    This dissertation studies overeducation incidence and persistence among graduates from different fields of study and social origin from a social stratification standpoint. Empirical research has shown that overeducation ...

    Precarious employment and social reproduction: the impact on health and well-being 

    Tanzini, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-06-15)

    This dissertation aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on precarious employment, social reproduction and the impact on health and well-being. In recent years, numerous studies have examined ...

    Reimagining truth and morality: from Jürgen Habermas to Jacques Derrida 

    Tskhadaia, Giorgi (Date of defense: 2020-02-13)

    In this thesis, I argue that Jürgen Haberma’s neo-katian liberalim fails to provide universalistic foundations for truth and morality as it cannot be applied invariably across different context. However, this failure does ...

    Sexual identity and adverse health-related outcomes: a study on risk behaviour, suicide, and substance use 

    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 homonegativity (IH) is ...

    The impact of political sophistication on the use cognitive shortcuts: evidence from experiments and secondary data 

    Brusattin, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)

    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 ...

    The political transnationalism of immigrant associations in Barcelona 

    Vancea, Mihaela (Date of defense: 2009-05-26)

    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 ...

    Time, love and parenting: the role of fathers in the intergenerational transmission of advantage 

    Cano López, Tomás (Date of defense: 2019-03-25)

    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 ...