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 ...
Bermúdez Torres, Sandra (Date of defense: 2012-09-21)
This thesis addresses the omission in the literature of how political context influences the performance of informational shortcuts. In line with this research gap, the first article suggests that ...
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. ...
Cimentada, Jorge (Date of defense: 2019-09-25)
By placing particular attention to the socio-economic dimension, this thesis explores the role of three pillars of an educational system: decentralization, early education and curricular tracking. The ...
Torre Fernández, Margarita (Date of defense: 2011-05-26)
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 ...
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 ...
Gilliland, Anthony C. (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
This thesis addresses the creation of new states within federal arrangements – particularly federations - and their justification in liberal democratic contexts. It is presented as a set of three ...
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 ...
Rueda Pozo, Silvia (Date of defense: 2011-04-07)
Aquesta tesi analitza les desigualtats en salut entre les persones grans a través d’un marc d’anàlisi on es combinen la posició socioeconòmica, el gènere, el desenvolupament socioeconòmic regional i ...
Gil-Porquet, Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
By examining the framing that political actors made of the upcoming landmark LOAPA, Rumasa and abortion decisions issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court between 1980 and 1983, its influence on public ...