Today there are two tendencies in apparent contradiction: increasing globalisation and the rise of cultural, religious and national individualities. In the struggle for equity, human rights have followed society from the individual to the universal organization; from civil rights to the...

Most of the problems in Spanish public universities come from their complicated and inefficient governance system. This system is sometimes conceived as a simile of the political corps of a nation; sometimes it's conceived as an enterprise not regulated by offer-demand law. A drastic governance...

This article uses the different mortality rates of European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies. In places where mortality rates were high they did not settle, but set up...

this paper proposes several indicators for income distribution derived from the height of individuals. From the study of these indicators, we can conclude that the economic backwardness that zamora suffered led a further deterioration of living standards compared to other more economically...

Spanish Abstract: El desarrollo económico de las naciones se basa en su planta productiva y esta a su vez necesita de profesionistas capacitados para el desarrollo de la competitividad entre las empresas, sin embargo cada vez los jóvenes profesionistas encuentran una realidad más cruda, donde...

El presente documento describe la evolución del mercado laboral profesional en el Total de las Trece Áreas Metropolitanas (TTAM) y desarrolla un modelo que permite calcular la probabilidad que un profesional este desempleado. Se utiliza la información de los segundos trimestres de la Encuesta...

In spite of the relevance of international migration and of the recent advances in the theoretical literature, the evidence on its causes is still scarce and contradictory. Some datasets are not comparable and/or limited in scope, often restricted to the study of migration to only one country....

This document develops an endogenous growth model in which it is possible to obtain a positive long run growth rate by combining investment in human capital and the endogenous advance of technological knowledge. The model shows the complementary characteristics of the two kinds of knowledge and...

Spanish Abstract: Se quiere mostrar la importancia de la transformación humana a partir del cambio histórico. Para ello, se recurrirá a presentar tres casos históricos donde la humanidad ha experimentado transformaciones, si se quieren, radicales, para los que quizás no estaba preparado. La...