Were women working in the 18th century Spain, before censuses of the population existed? Thanks to this research, it has been discovered that a large percentage of women worked in manufacturing...
The lawyer and journalist Caddy Adzuba has stood out as an international speaker of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially with regard to the situation of women, victims of gender violence related to DRC war. She is a founding member of the network "A loudspeaker for silence" and is...
Sergio Manrique, doctoral student of the Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Organization at the Business Department of UAB, and Dr. Carmen Pilar Martí-Ballester, associate professor of the same Department, have...
Researchers from the UAB have analysed over one thousand public primary education schools in Catalonia to study what motivates parents to choose a particular school. They have also studied how this election influences the quality...
Our environment and its characteristics define in a great percentage of cases the preferences of residence of the population. Researchers at the UAB have identified a relationship between the distance of the centers of interest, whether professional or...
Inmigración y Diversidad en España. Crisis econòmica y gestión municipal (Immigration and Diversity in Spain: Economic Crisis and Municipal Management), which was recently published by...
This study aims to stimulate the discussion on the effect of working time on environmental pressures. By distinguishing between different time periods for developed and developing country groups respectively, we confirmed the significant relationship between...
Concepts such as environmental racism, popular epidemiology, environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous, biopiracy or food sovereignty, and many others, serve to describe and participate in ecological distribution conflicts. They are conflicts related to the extraction...
The links between climate change, economic development, and poverty reduction have gained increasing attention over recent years. However, most of the existing literature tends to focus on direct, short-run...
The crisis of global financial-led growth reflects evidence of exhaustion of the current model of accumulation, characterized by lower growth rates and decreasing labour shares. A system which so far has only been possible by means of...
