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Long term earnings inequality, earnings instability and temporary employment in Spain
Cross-sectional earnings inequality of male full-time employees falls over the second half of the nineties in Spain. A study finds that such decline was determined by a decrease in earnings instability and an increase in...
Researchers Address Economic Dangers of ‘Peak Oil’ in USA
Researchers from the ICTA-UAB and the University of Maryland (UMD) demonstrate in a new study which sectors could put the entire U.S. economy at risk when global oil production peaks (‘Peak Oil”). This multi-disciplinary team...
Effects of Rising Oil Prices on Tourism Studied
A study involving an ICREA researcher at the UAB recommends designing strategies that minimize the economic impact on the Spanish tourism sector of a potential rise in oil prices. This paper has analyzed the possible effects of peak oil in this sector. According to these...
A new working class of services
According to a doctoral thesis defended at the Department of Sociology of the UAB, currently in Spain a new service-sector working class is emerging and replacing the traditional industrial working class. This study also raises the difficulties that this new segment of the population will...
