Departament d'Economia: Recent submissions
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Creative economy and sustainable human development: a theoretical approach for convergences and divergences
The thesis relates the ‘creative economy’ with the ‘sustainable human development’, tracing a parallel between economic growth (e.g. GDP) and human development (e.g. HDI). The aspect of sustainability is addressed through ...
Entrepreneurial skills, trust and jobs: three essays on entrepreneurial skills of self-employed and employees
This thesis is an empirical study that sets out to explain entrepreneurial activity, based on a broad concept of entrepreneurship. The study is based on the development of logistic regression models for a dichotomous ...
El trabajo emocional en el sector turístico. Obstáculos y facilitadores empresariales y su consecuencia para los trabajadores
The general objective of this thesis is to analyze if there is emotional labor in the tourism sector, as well as to study its possible causes and consequences. This general aim is concretized in three specific aims that ...
Health and economic conditions: evidence from individual-level data
The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of economic conditions on health using advanced micro-econometric techniques applied to survey data. The dissertation examines the consequences of the current ...
Mass unemployment in Spain (1959-2014): productive and commercial problems of a peripheral economy in global capitalism
The thesis studies one of the main problems in Spain: mass unemployment. It is not a short-term problem, but a structural feature of the Spanish socio-economic system since at least the end of the 1970s, which remains ...
Morbilidad, utilización de recursos y costes sanitarios en la comarca del Baix Empordà
Los sistemas de atención sanitaria tienden en la actualidad a migrar de formas de organización fragmentadas por líneas o niveles, que al mismo tiempo compiten e intentan coordinarse entre sí, hacia formas que integran todos ...
Temporal trends of incidence and survival of myeloid malignancies in Girona: a population-based study during the recent fifteen years
Myeloid malignancies (MMs) are a heterogeneous group of haematological malignancies presenting different incidence, prognosis and survival. Changing classifications (French-American-British (FAB), World Health Organization ...
Expectativas y preferencias en la utilización de servicios en atención primaria
The main aim of this thesis is to study the expectations and preferences of the Catalan population regarding the public health system, and an appraisal of the influence played by factors such as age, gender, geographical ...
Tourism demand in Spain: trip duration and budget structure, a comparison of low cost and legacy airline users
This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users according to travel ...
Pobresa, privació i rendes mínimes a Catalunya
The current economic crisis has increased severe poverty as well as severe deprivation levels in our society, putting under stress the existing social protection system. In the Spanish system of social protection, the very ...
Adapting forest management to climate change
Climate change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century. The increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, in temperatures, and changes in the precipitation pattern are expected to alter the ...
Mixed models and point processes
The main objective of this Thesis is to model the occurrence of wildfires and, in particular, knowing the factors with more influence, to evaluate how they are distributed in space and time. The Thesis presents three major ...
Health and economic convergence in the European Union (1990-2010): an econometric approach
The main aim of this thesis is to evaluate the reduction of economic and health disparities in the European Union from 1990-2010. Through different dynamic panel models, we show that in simple economics terms there has ...
Control and modeling techniques in biomedical engineering: the artificial pancreas for patients with type 1 diabetes
This thesis presents different control strategies, for the closed-loop artificial pancreas, which are based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Sliding Mode Control (SMC). Multiple MPC with linear models and gain scheduling, ...
Conformal prediction of air pollution concentrations for the Barcelona Metropolitan Region
This thesis is aimed to introduce a newly developed machine learning method, conformal predictors, for air pollution assessment. For the given area of study, the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR), several conformal ...
L'eficiència del mercat immobiliari: estratègies i instruments
Real estate represents a part of the portfolio of many investors and can be accessed from both the real and the financial market. The low efficiency of real market prevents from taking advantage of the value created through ...
Definición de los conceptos "tradicional" e "innovación" en alimentos desde la perspectiva del consumidor europeo
Traditional food products (TFP) are an important part of European culture, identity, and heritage. The main objective of present research is to obtain a consumer-driven definition for the concept of ‘‘traditional food ...
El impacto sobre los trabajadores de una gestión de recursos humanos socialmente responsable. Un análisis para Catalunya
Socially responsible human resource management constitutes the conceptual-theory framework of the thesis. The results obtained from the empirical part show the existence of three clusters inasmuch as the application of ...
La Utilització dels serveis d'atenció primària a la Regió Sanitària Girona i els seus condicionants demogràfics, econòmics i socials
El percentatge de població immigrant a l'estat espanyol oscil·la al voltant d'un 14%. Les característiques sociodemogràfiques d'aquests col·lectius nouvinguts ha suposat una alteració en la utilització dels recursos públics ...
La Hipertensió arterial a la pràctica: optimització de la mesura de la pressió arterial i de l'avaluació de l'afectació dels òrgans diana
Objectius: a) avaluar la utilitat de la mesura de la pressió arterial a la consulta pel diplomat d'infermeria; b) establir quin és el punt de tall pel valor normal de l'automesura de la pressió arterial al domicili del ...
