• Policies and public opinion towards immigrants: the Spanish case

  Zapata Barrero, Ricard (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

  By tackling negative opinions towards immigration we can create a basis to orientate policies that seek to reduce them. My purpose is to highlight that the analysis of immigration in Spain exemplifies a clear link between ...
• Union responses to precarious workers: Italy and Spain compared

  Pulignano, Valeria; Ortiz Gervasi, Luis; de Franceschi, Fabio (SAGE Publications, 2016)

  Transformations of European labour markets and welfare systems have deepened the problem of precarious work, leading trade unions to develop strategies to represent and organize the workers affected. We focus on Italy and ...
• Navigating between two cultures: immigrants' gender attitudes toward working women

  Pessin, Léa; Arpino, Bruno (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2018)

  Background: Gender attitudes toward women’s employment are of particular importance because they positively influence gender-equal outcomes in the labor market. Our understanding of the mechanisms that promote egalitarian ...
• Outsourcing as management strategy in local public services

  Salvador Serna, Miquel; Riba i Romeva, Clara (Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), 2017)

  A modo de contribución al debate académico sobre el uso de la externalización como fórmula de provisión de los servicios públicos locales, el artículo plantea focalizar la atención en los factores político-institucionales. ...
• Rationale of the Spanish FRAX model in decision-making for predicting osteoporotic fractures: an update of FRIDEX cohort of Spanish women

  Azagra, Rafael; Zwart, Marta; Encabo, Gloria; Aguyé, Amada; Martin-Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Puchol-Ruiz, Nuria; Gabriel-Escoda, Paula; Ortiz-Alinque, Sergio; Gené, Emilio; Iglesias, Milagros; Moriña, David; Diaz-Herrera, Miguel Angel; Utzet Sadurní, Mireia; Manresa, Josep Maria; GROIMAP study group (BioMed Central, 2016)

  Background: The FRAX® tool estimates the risk of a fragility fracture among the population and many countries have been evaluating its performance among their populations since its creation in 2007. The purpose of this ...
• Educational attainment, gender and health inequalities among older adults in Catalonia (Spain)

  Solé Auró, Aïda; Alcañiz, Manuela (BioMed Central, 2016)

  Background: Health expectancies vary worldwide according to socioeconomic status (SES), with health disadvantages being evident among lower SES groups. Using educational attainment as a proxy of SES, we seek to identify ...
• Contextualized measures of public service motivation: the case of Spain

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (SAGE Publications, 2015)

  Since the initial ‘public service motivation’ concept and measures were developed, various studies have raised concerns with regard to cultural differences. According to previous research trying to supplement the four ...
• El comportament electoral dual a Catalunya

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Fundació Josep Irla, 2008)

  Cada vegada que finalitza un cicle electoral afloren multitud d’interpretacions sobre el comportament electoral /ndels catalans i catalanes. Observem els resultats dels diferents comicis i iniciem un joc de sumes i restes ...
• La 'motivación para el servicio público' de los altos funcionarios españoles: medida y efectos

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2015)

  Este artículo presenta el concepto de “motivación para el servicio público” (MSP) en el /ncontexto español y su posible utilidad como instrumento de gestión pública para evaluar /nsi los empleados de los servicios públicos ...
• Coyuntura económica y voto en España, 1985-1996

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - revista Papers, 2005)

  El artículo presenta un modelo de popularidad para el Gobierno español entre 1985 y/n1996. El modelo se ha elaborado con datos trimestrales procedentes de encuestas del CIS/ny de la UE y datos económicos procedentes de la ...
• Supervisión y control de calidad del trabajo de campo de la Encuesta Social Europea en España: evaluación y resultados

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Universidad de Salamanca - Metodología de Encuestas, 2006)

  Este artículo persigue dos objetivos fundamentales. En primer lugar, pretende aportar una visión general de los/nprocesos de supervisión y control de calidad del trabajo de campo que se realizan en el estudio /nespañol de ...
• Variables socioestructurales y comportamiento electoral en las elecciones generales españolas: una perspectiva evolutiva 1979-2000

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales - Revista de estudios políticos, 2007)

  En este trabajo se analiza el comportamiento electoral de los españoles en las/nelecciones generales en función de sus características socioeconómicas: edad, género,/nnivel de estudios, clase social y religión. Después de ...
• Mejorando a partir de la experiencia: la implementación de la tercera ola de la ESE en España

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2009)

  La Encuesta Social Europea (ESE), creada con el/ndoble objetivo de estudiar el cambio social y de/naportar mejoras en la creación y diseño de instrumentos/nde medida de esa realidad, ha finalizado ya/nsu tercera ola. La ...
• Estrategias para aumentar la tasa de respuesta y sus resultados en la Encuesta Social Europea en España

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2010)

  El análisis de los datos de la tercera ola de la Encuesta Social Europea en España y su comparación con/nlos de las dos olas precedentes permiten descubrir los factores que más han incidido en la mejora de los/nresultados ...
• Minimum income and labour market integration processes: individual and institutional determinants

  Riba i Romeva, Clara (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2011)

  This article discusses whether activation policies have had a positive/neffect on benefi ciaries of minimum income protection in Catalonia/n(Spain). The article fi rst confi rms that social assistance benefi ciaries/nwith ...
• Employment precariousness and poor mental health: evidence from Spain on a new social determinant of health

  Vives Vergara, Alejandra, 1971-; Amable, Marcelo; Ferrer, Montserrat; Moncada i Lluís, Salvador, 1957-; Llorens Serrano, Clara; Muntaner, Carles, 1957-; Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García); Benach, Joan (Hindawi, 2013)

  BACKGROUND: Evidence on the health-damaging effects of precarious employment is limited by the use of one-dimensional approaches focused on employment instability. This study assesses the association between precarious ...
• Contemporary employment arrangements and mental well-being in men and women across Europe: a cross-sectional study

  Moortel, Deborah De; Vandenheede, Hadewijch; Vanroelen, Christophe (BioMed Central, 2014)

  Introduction: There is the tendency in occupational health research of approximating the 'changed world of work' with a sole focus on the intrinsic characteristics of the work task, encompassing the job content and working ...
• Economic crisis and recovery: changes in second birth rates within occupational classes and educational groups

  Billingsley, Sunnee (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2011)

  This study assesses the decline in second birth rates for men and women across different skill levels in transitional Russia. Changes within educational groups and occupational classes are observed over three distinct time ...
• Gender inequality in health among elderly people in a combined framework of socioeconomic position, family characteristics and social support

  Rueda Pozo, Silvia; Artazcoz Lazcano, Lucía, 1963- (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

  This study analyses gender inequalities in health among elderly people in Catalonia (Spain) by adopting a conceptual framework that globally considers three dimensions of health determinants : socio-economic position, ...
• Exploring the conditions for a mortality crisis: bringing context back into the debate

  Billingsley, Sunnee (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

  This study engages with the debate over the mortality crises in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe by 1) considering at length and as complementary to each other the two most prominent explanations for ...

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