La presencia de las empresas de trabajo temporal (ETTs) en España es relativamente reciente si se compara con otros países en los cuales éstas tienen más tradición. No obstante, a pesar de su corto recorrido histórico, su funcionalidad en el mercado de trabajo ha ido variando notablemente....

The main goal of the current work is to analyse differences between the working conditions of national and foreign workers in Spain. For this purpose, we study an important dimension of those working conditions, namely workplace injuries, and more specifically the differences in duration of...

The cost of duration moral hazard in workplace accident insurance has been amply explored by North-American scholars in both the USA and Canada. Given the current context of financial constraints in public accounts and particularly in the Social Security system, we feel that the issue merits...

The main goal of this paper is to analyse gender differences in the Spanish workplace accident insurance or worker’s compensation (WC) system. More specifically, we are interested in understanding the differences between female and male employees in the duration of the recovery spell after a...

This document shows the importance of policies for electric energy savings and efficient energy utilization in power planning. The contributions of economic, social, and environmental items were evaluated according to their financial effects in the delay of investments, reduction of production...

This paper examines the effects of the minimum wages on the employment of immigrants in Spain. This is a novel research that takes into consideration two important facts. First, the considerable increase in the immigrant population occurred in Spain during the last decade and, second, the...

El artículo es la síntesis del estudio realizado entre III y IX de 2006 del mismo nombre. Consta de tres partes: La primera plantea la problemática de los niños, niñas y adolescentes en riesgo, temática concebida a partir de los derechos consagrados en la Convención de los Derechos del...