We study the process by which subordinated regions of a country can obtain a more favourable political status. In our theoretical model a dominant and a dominated region first interact through a voting process that can lead to different degrees of autonomy. If this process fails then both...

There is a high degree of sex-typing in young children's occupational aspirations and this has consequences for subsequent occupational segregation. Sociologists typically attribute early sex- differences in occupational preferences to gender socialization. Yet we still know surprisingly little...

This paper is the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing by their type of contract: permanent or fixed- term. Using a rich longitudinal Spanish data set from Social Security records of over 76,000 prime-aged women...

We examine an economy where human capital is the cause of growth. Individuals are altruistic and give their offspring education and bequests. We study the incidence of three education systems on the human capital of the offspring. We show that the effects of an education subsidy on growth are...

En este trabajo se construyen algunos indicadores de desempeño para los sistemas educativos no universitarios de las regiones españolas durante los cursos 2005-06 a 2008-09 a partir de información suministrada por diversas publicaciones del Ministerio de Educación. Estos indicadores permiten...