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 ...
Tariffi, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2013-07-15)
Los desequilibrios internos y externos de los países en la economía global han dado lugar a debates sobre el intercambio de monedas y su vinculación con la competitividad, las balanzas de pagos y el ...
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 ...
Baez Morales, Antonio (Date of defense: 2015-11-05)
Informality is a very complex subject, with the informal workers we see on the streets as only the surface of larger and more complicated issues. The word "informality," when applied to labour, has ...
García León, Omar (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
Entender el territorio a partir del funcionamiento de la economía y, en forma particular, a partir del comportamiento espacial del empleo. A través de la formación de áreas geográficas para el reporte ...
Ordóñez-Cuenca, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-05-24)
Ecuador presenta importantes disparidades regionales que se derivan en migración interna, las grandes provincias son también las mayores receptoras de migrantes aunque por efecto del incremento del nivel ...
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 ...