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  • Vocational training and innovation system

    Project leaders

    Brunet, Ignasi

    Funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain

    The low level of intermediate skills, compared to OECD mean, and the predominance of small and medium scale companies (SMEs) in the industrial fabric are both important aspects of the Spanish economic model. Training and innovation (as well as relation between both of them) are part of the solution that has to be taken to respond to the current challenges. But how can this response be developed? How is it working nowadays training and innovation system? In which apects can them be improved? This project aims to com up with proposals to answer the previous questions.  

  • Female labour force participation in spin-offs

    Project leaders

    Inma Pastor

    Funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Goverment of Spain

    This research project addresses the gender division of labour effects on the creation of spin-offs from universities. It aims to verify if differences found in self-employment by gender are the same in the creation of spin-offs and it wonders which role plays the university system in the production / reproduction of gender inequality.

  • University spin-offs and gender in Catalonia

    Project leaders

    Brunet, Ignasi

    Funded by Institut Català de les Dones

    This research project addresses the effects of sexual division of labor on the creation of spin-offs in order to verify whether the differences in creating self-employment by gender are also manifested in the creation of spin-offs and which is the role played by the university system in the production and reproduction of gender inequalities.

  • Poverty, exclusion and gender inequality in Spain

    Project leaders

    Ángel Belzunegui

    Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

    The purpose of this research project is to analyze from a gender perspective, which is the logic behind the social processes of impoverishment and social exclusion that affect women in Spain and how their experience, ie, how they define poverty and its relations with the other elements around them: family, work, social groups, housekeeping, care of dependents. The central focus of research is to compare poverty and differences in the processes of impoverishment and social exclusion among women and men in Spain.

  • New poverty and social exclusion among Spanish young people

    Project leaders

    Brunet, Ignasi

    Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

    This research project addresses, from an interdisciplinary perspective, poverty and exclusion of young people in Spain. The purpose of this research is to figure out the logic behind the processes of impoverishment and social exclusion affecting young people, and how the young people affected live their experience. The nature of social processes we investigated involved the triangulation of data and methods. The results of this research design are subjected to mechanical tests.

  • Industrial SMEs in the regional system of innovation

    Project leaders

    Manuel Ahedo

    Funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Goverment of Spain

    The theory of national / regional innovation systems emerged strongly in the nineties. This theory points to the importance of social factors (organizational, institutional, cultural) in the process of creating and applying knowledge. At the same time, some doubts about the technology transfer policies based on 'supply model' developed from the 80 appeared. The objective of this project is to analyze the processes of innovation in Spanish  SMEs, with special attention to the relations with its environment or regional innovation system.

  • Language skills and intergenerational mobility of immigrants

    Project leaders

    Alarcón, Amado

    Funded by AGAUR - Generalitat de Catalunya

    This research project addresses the role of the Catalan language in the social mobility of children of immigrants living in Catalonia. Given the relative newness of the inclusion of children of immigrants (whether born in Catalonia or coming for porposes of family reunification), the aim of this research is to identify the main trends in order to establish proposals actions on equality and the accommodation of this group. Our starting point is that knowledge of the Catalan language has positive effects on social mobility, which explains the instrumental value of this language.

  • Gender and creation of business

    Project leaders

    Brunet, Ignasi

    Funded by Instituto de la Mujer - Ministerio de la Igualdad

    This research project adresses the effects of the sexual division of work in the self-employement from an interdisciplinary perspective. About this issue, we wonder to what extend are the inequalities produced in self-employement. The investigation was held in the Mediterranean area of Spain, including four regions: Catalonia, Comunitat Valenciana, Murcia and Andalusia.

  • Language and markets: linguistic efficiency in Europe

    Project leaders

    Alarcón, Amado

    Funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

    This research project "Languages and markets: social and linguistic efficiency in European Integration" adresses the relationship between internationalization of economic activity, linguistic capital and social inequality. This relationship can be observed in the Economic and Monetary Union, where not all the companies have the same appropriate linguistic capital to access to the opportunities offered by the free movement of labor, capital, goods and services.  The purpose of the project is to understand the problems of economic efficiency and distribution of resources among social groups in a context of increasing linguistic complexity.

  • Women in Healthcare: careers and access to positions of responsibility

    Project leaders

    Inma Pastor

    Funded by Instituto de la Mujer - Ministerio de la Igualdad

    This projectaims to study the sector of helath,which in recentyearshas undergonea majorprocess offeminization.Whilewomenhave traditionallybeenpresent in theservices sector, until recentlythey hadinmostcategoriesbeinglessresponsibility,whilethe jobsof higherprofessional qualificationwascommon to findmen. In recent yearswe see a process offeminizationof themedical professionasthe number of womenstudyingthis professionand the number ofwomen whoexercise has grown.Westudy whetherthis process offeminizationisimplyinggreater accessofwomento positions ofresponsibility withininstitutionsthat providehealth servicesor, on thecontrary, womenremaina minorityinthese positions.

    The objectivesof the study are to radiograph the situationof health workersin relation tothe gender variableand analyze thecausesof this situation.Causes which, underourassumptions,have to do withthe doubleworkloadof womenbut alsofactorsrelated to the exerciseof the medical profession.