El presente trabajo se centra en el estudio del tiempo hasta la discapacitación para las actividades de la vida diaria en la población activa de Cataluña mayor de 60 años. El riesgo de sufrir discapacidades es mayor para este grupo de edad que en los más jóvenes y, además, se incrementa...

El objetivo del trabajo es analizar el papel de los diferentes componentes del capital humano como determinantes de los ingresos de los inmigrantes recientes en el mercado de trabajo español. A partir de los microdatos de la Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, se examina la rentabilidad del...

Esta investigación analiza la movilidad ocupacional de los inmigrantes entre sus países de origen y España, así como sus principales determinantes. La misma se basa en los microdatos de la Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes y el uso de una escala de estatus ocupacional de carácter...

The paper examines the origin of the differences in the wage distribution between native-born and immigrant workers in the Spanish labour market, paying special attention to the effect of immigrant segregation into low-paying occupations and firms. Our evidence reveals that immigrants from...

Spanish Abstract: Este texto reúne los análisis de los profesores de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas e investigadores del CID de la Universidad Nacional sobre la actual coyuntura del ciclo de movilizaciones en curso en Colombia, con particular referencia al análisis de los sujetos del...

This paper presents Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) at the national level for the years 2004, 2005 y 2006, and at the regional level (NUTS 2) by pooling the information of these three years from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey. This is the...

Research has established that health status is affected not only by medical factors but also by socioeconomic variables. In this paper we analyze the links between health status (measured by self-reported illness occurrence in the last 12 months) and individuals’ socioeconomic situation. Using...

In this paper we analyze the links between health status (measured by selfreported illness occurrence) and individuals' socioeconomic situation. Using the annual households surveys of Uruguay for the period 1991 to 2000, we compute probit models and find that men, unmarried, young people,...

This paper analyzes the association between quality of parenting programs and child development outcomes . It focuses on parenting programs delivered through home visits (i.e., home visiting programs) in which a par aprofessional works with the caregiver to improve parental practices, skills and...

This work studies the health status of young Uruguayan population based on the Survey on Health and Social Networks, carried by Department of Economics of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UdelaR, during the year 2004. Through an ordered probit model,