El presente trabajo tiene como foco estudiar los determinantes del emprendimiento femenino en Europa. Concretamente, se aspira a cuantificar el efecto que una serie de variables demográficas, económicas y socioculturales tienen sobre la decisión de emprender de hombres y mujeres. Para ello,...

This paper analyses the differences between earnings and market work time between the self-employed (entrepreneurs) and employed workers in 35 European countries. In addition, we analyse the determinants of the decision to become a self-employed. We develop an empirical analysis of the...

The aim of this paper is to explore whether postmaterialism explains differences in Total entrepreneurial-activity rates across Spanish Autonomous Communities. A distinction is made between potential entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and Established business, as...

En los últimos años, el litio se ha convertido, dentro de los debates sobre producción en Argentina, en uno de los temas más mencionados tanto en espacios académicos y políticos, como en diversos medios de comunicación. Los distintos discursos coinciden en posicionarlo como un material...

The socioeconomic situation of European coalfields is highly heterogeneous. On the one hand, successful examples comprise regions that long ago embraced internationalization, innovation and/or restructuring strategies. In those regions where the aforementioned strategies were fruitful, the...

La “paradoja del crecimiento infeliz” que encuentran tanto Lora y Chaparro (2008) como Deaton (2008) en la Encuesta Mundial Gallup (EMG) de 2006 es inconsistente con la literatura en términos del impacto del ingreso sobre el bienestar en el corto plazo. Este trabajo incorpora...

This paper’s key goal is the analisys of a possible connection in the commuting time of German female workers depending on their employment status (employee or self-employed). With a focus on the data obtained from the European Working Conditions Survey 2015, it was estimated that there is a...

This paper aims to analyze the commuting behavior of workers in Luxembourg with a focus on the differences in commuting time between employees and the self-employed. In order to carry out the analysis we have used data from the latest wave of the European Working Conditions Survey (2015). We use...

En este estudio pretendo analizar el tiempo de commuting empleado por la población en edad de trabajar en Italia. El estudio analizará las diferentes variables por las cuales estudiamos el commuting enfocándonos en las diferencias por género y localización geográfica. Se tendrán en cuenta...

This paper analyses the behavior of French workers, employed and self- employed, in relation to home-work commute. We use the collected data from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) and we look for the main fac- tors that most influence on the commuting times. A comparison between...