• What shape great expectations? Gender, social origin and country differences in students’ expectations of university graduation

  Ortiz Gervasi, Luis (2018-04-25)

  Over the last decades, female educational attainment has progressively caught up with male one in many OECD countries. Expectations of university graduation have correspondingly been found to be higher among female adolescents ...
• My house or our home? Entry into sole homeownership in British couples

  Lersch, Philipp; Vidal Torre, Sergi (2015-10-01)

  It is mostly assumed that both partners in couples own their homes jointly. We challenge this assumption and examine the individual ownership configurations within couples in Britain. We argue that the individual legal ...
• The policy context of fertility in Spain: toward a gender-egalitarian model?

  Baizán, Pau (2015-10-01)

  Fertility levels have remained very low in Spain since the mid-1980s, implying a future rapid aging of the population. The stagnation of fertility levels is closely linked to the substantial changes in the welfare regime ...
• Mother's educational level and family structure: comparing Spain and Italy

  Garriga Alsina, Anna; Sarasa Urdiola, Sebastià; Berta, Paolo (Max Planck Society, 2014)

  During the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a positive relationship between single parenthood and the mother’s educational level in Spain and Italy. However, several important transformations contemplated ...
• A functional taxonomy of the occupational structure

  Rodríguez Menés, Jorge (2014-10-14)

  This paper proposes to conceptualize the division of labor functionally,/nas a response to environmental variations and instabilities that lead to/nalternative forms of horizontal – task – and vertical – role –/ndifferentiation. ...
• The effect of gender policies on fertility: The moderating role of education and normative context

  Baizán, Pau; Arpino, Bruno; Delclós Gómez-Morán, Carlos Eric (2014-10-14)

  In this paper we aim to assess the extent to which individual-level completed/nfertility varies across contexts as characterized by policies that support different/ngender division of labor models. We examine key labor ...
• What drives Senegalese migration to Europe? The role of economic restructuring, labor demand and the multiplier effect of networks

  Baizán, Pau; González-Ferrer, Amparo (2014-07-10)

  International migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe is poorly/nunderstood. Furthermore, existing studies pay insufficient attention to/nthe links between the micro-level factors and political, social and/neconomic ...
• Changes in gender role attitudes and fertility : a macro-level analysis

  Arpino, Bruno; Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, 1947-; Pessin, Léa (2014-07-08)

  This study explores whether changes in fertility rates are associated/nwith the diffusion of gender-equitable attitudes. We argue that any/npositive effect on fertility requires not only that the level of genderequitable ...
• Social capital and cognitive attainment

  Rodríguez Menés, Jorge; Donato, Luisa (2013-05)

  We review the different meanings that researchers have given to theconcept of social capital, differentiate four types – bridging, bonding,linking, and overheads –, and discuss their different functions as public,club, and ...
• Decisiones de empleo y cuidado en parejas de dos ingresos en España

  Abril, Paco (2013-03-11)

  ¿Hasta qué punto se preparan las parejas jóvenes en España para una parentalidad corresponsable? Los estudios muestran que gran parte de las desigualdades de género en las sociedades occidentales emergen y se recrudecen ...
• What lies behind the devaluation of educational credentials?

  Ortiz Gervasi, Luis (2012-10)

  Applying fixed-effects models to EULFS data on Spain from 1998 to2006, the paper explores the effects of educational expansion on theoccupational returns to education across different levels of education.We build an indicator ...
• Parental investments in children: how bargaining and educational homogamy affect time allocation

  Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, 1947-; Bonke, Jens (2007-05-29)

  This study examines parental time investment in their children, distinguishing between developmental and non-developmental care. Our analyses centre on three influential determinants: educational background, marital homogamy, ...
• Asymmetries in the opportunity structure. Intergenerational mobility trends in Europe

  Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, 1947- (2012-05)

  It remains unclear whether social mobility is increasing in the advancednations. The answer may depend on mobility patterns within very recentbirth cohorts. We use the inter-generational module in the 2005 EUSILCwhich ...
• Claves para el trabajo con la muestra continua de vidas laborales

  Lapuerta, Irene (2010-09-23)

  Desde el año 2005 la comunidad científica cuenta con una nueva fuente de información anual para el estudio de las dinámicas del mercado de trabajo y del sistema de previsión social de carácter contributivo en España. Sus ...
• The Generational contract in the family : explaining regime differences in financial transfers from parents to children in Europe

  Kohli, Martin; Albertini, Marco (2008-10-21)

  The exchange of social and economic support between the generationsis one of the main pillars of both family life and welfare systems. Thedebate on how to reform the generational contract is still truncated, however, by ...
• Overeducation among European university graduates : a comparative analysis ot its incidence and the importance of higher education differentiation

  Barone, Carlo; Ortiz Gervasi, Luis (2010-02-05)

  The incidence of over-education is here assessed by applying some standard subjective and objective indicators and a new skill-based indicator of over-education to the national samples of eight European countries in the ...
• The Sociology of educational mismatch

  Kucel, Aleksander (2010-05-12)

  This paper studies the theoretical relationships between core research lines of sociology such as intergenerational mobility, class structure, cultural capital and educational mismatches. By educational mismatch we mean ...
• Personal and household care giving for adult children to parents and social stratification

  Sarasa Urdiola, Sebastià; Billingsley, Sunnee (2008-10-22)

  Using SHARE database the paper explores the factors conditioning personalcare giving from adult children to their parents. Frequency and intensity ofpersonal care is contrasted with the reciprocal expectations that children ...
• Is there a wage penalty for horizontal and vertical mismatch?

  Kucel, Aleksander; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat (2010-05-12)

  This paper studies how the horizontal and vertical mismatches in the labor market affect wage. We do so by taking into account that by choosing a job, wage and mismatches are simultaneously determined. The Seemingly Unrelated ...
• Union activism in an inclusive model of industrial relations: evidence from an Spanish case

  Jódar, Pere; Vidal Torre, Sergi; Alós, Ramon (2008-11-10)

  In this article we analyze the reasons, within the context of Spanish industrial relations, for trade union members’ active participation in their regional union. The case of Spain is particularly interesting as the unions’ ...

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