Documents de recerca, en accés obert, com ara articles de revista, llibres, comunicacions, ponències o posters a jornades i congressos, etc., del Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials de la UPF.
Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking ...
According to the International Labor Organization, Maternity Protection (MP) policies try to harmonize child care and women's paid work, without affecting family health and economic security. Chile Law 20.545 (2011) increased ...
Batista-Foguet, Joan Manuel; Saris, Willem E.; Boyatzis, Richard E.; Serlavós, Ricard; Velasco Moreno, Ferran(Frontiers, 2019)
Multisource assessment (MSA) is based on the belief that assessments are valid inferences about an individual’s behavior. When used for performance management purposes, convergence of views among raters is important, and ...
Precarious employment (PE) is a determinant of poor health and health inequality. However, the evidence of health consequences and mechanisms underlying the associations, are still limited due to a lack of a comprehensive ...
Glitz, Albrecht Christian Ekkehard, 1978-; Meyersson, Erik(American Economic Association, 2020)
In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage. We show that the flow of information provided by East German informants in the West over the period 1970–1989 led to a significant narrowing of ...
Revilla, Melanie; Couper, Mick P.; Ochoa, Carlos(GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2019)
People’s willingness to share data with researchers is the fundamental raw material for most social science research. So far, survey researchers have mainly asked respondents to share data in the form of answers to survey ...
Moncagatta, Paolo; Espinosa, Carlos(Universidad de los Andes, 2019)
En este artículo se describen y analizan el desempeño, la oferta, la organización y la acogida electoral de la derecha en Ecuador entre 1998 y 2018, un período en el que esta tendencia ideológica enfrentó condicionamientos ...
The E-DEM dataset provides information on the evolution of political and affective polarisation and electoral behaviour in the aftermath of the political crisis that shook the Spanish party system starting in 2014. The ...
The increasing volume of “Big Data” produced by sensors and smart devices can transform the social and behavioral sciences. Several successful studies used digital data to provide new insights into social reality. This ...
Pirralha, André; Weber, Wiebke(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)
With the increasing availability of cross-national data, more attention has been given to the issue of comparability. But while a lot of emphasis has been directed to the assessment of measurement invariance, there has ...
This study utilizes acceleration data from smartphone sensors to predict motion conditions of smartphone respondents. Specifically, we predict whether respondents are moving or nonmoving on a survey page level to learn ...
Höhne, Jan Karem; Krebs, Dagmar; Kühnel, Steffen-M.(SAGE Publications, 2022)
In social science research, unipolar and bipolar scales are commonly used methods in measuring respondents’ attitudes and opinions. Compared to other rating scale characteristics, scale polarity (unipolar and bipolar) and ...
Nous analysons ici le processus de « frontiérisation » en Espagne, dans sa relation aux « crises migratoires » qui se produisent de façon récurrente dans certains segments de la ligne frontalière. Nous abordons les modalités ...
Gabrielli, Lorenzo(CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), 2017)
Este artículo analiza las recientes evoluciones de la externalización del control migratorio en la UE a fin de comprender hasta qué punto la dimensión externa que desarrolló hacia los países de África Subsahariana el ...
In this article, we address a gap in the scholarship on (super)diversity, discrimination and racism by placing the experiences of non-western migrants and Roma people in the same conceptual framework of stigmatization based ...
The core reflection of this article is to explore the potential of using the Mediterranean as a category of analysis for migration studies, what epistemological and ontological effects this may have and how this could be ...
The increasing use of mobile devices in the frame of online surveys has been accompanied by the development of research apps. These research apps have the potential to facilitate the process for respondents (e.g. being ...
We test the importance of responsiveness, performance and corruption to explain the evolution of political trust in Spain between 1997 and 2019. To this end, the study analyses two longitudinal datasets, namely, a repeated ...