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July 3, 2019

School of Economics researchers outline citizen perceptions of the EU project with Horizon 2020 partners across Europe

The Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR-IREA) at the UB School of Economics has led the evaluation of the citizen perceptions of the EU regarding the regional performance of the Cohesion Policy and institutional quality. This research falls within the PERCEIVE project, a three-year research project funded by the European programme Horizon 2020 which studies what influences the perception of Europe at the regional level. PERCEIVE is an acronym that stands…

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June 27, 2019

UB School of Economics researchers Enric Tello and Ricard Soto awarded prize for best ‘Journal of Agrarian Change’ article

The UB School of Economics researchers Enric Tello and Ricard Soto have been awarded the Bernstein & Byres Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Agrarian Change in 2018 for “From feudal colonization to agrarian capitalism in Mallorca: Peasant endurance under the rise and fall of large estates (1229–1900)”. Enric Tello and Ricard Soto co-authored the article with Gabriel Jover (Universitat de Girona), Ivan Murray (Universitat de…

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June 20, 2019

School of Economics research warns Spanish pension system reform could have worsened pensioner’s economic position

The last major reform of the Spanish retirement pension system, implemented in 2013, intended to be a major step towards sustainability. However, it also implied foreseeable strong and negative effects on “adequacy”, defined as the extent to which pensions guarantee a sufficient level of income for the elderly. As a result of this reform, pensioners would see their relative economic position worsened throughout forthcoming decades, as a study co-authored by…

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June 19, 2019

New research finds negative impact of temporary work liberalisation on earnings and employment in Spain

The UB School of Economics and Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) researcher Dr Judit Vall Castelló has contributed to a new study that has found evidence of a large downward jump in earnings and employment in Spain after the liberalisation of fixed-term contracts in 1984. The reform reduced the number of days worked by 4.9% and earnings by 9.8% in the first 10 years of the workers’ careers. Over 27…

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June 17, 2019

UB School of Economics researchers recognised with Lluís Fina Prize and Luis Toharia Grant at 13th Labour Economics Meeting

The Spanish Association of Labour Economics (AEET) has awarded the Lluís Fina Prize to the UB School of Economics researcher Antonio Di Paolo during the 13th Labour Economics Meeting. On the other hand, the PhD student in Economics at the UB School of Economics Tania Fernández Navia was awarded one of the Luis Toharia Grants at the same meeting, which took place on June 12th-14th 2019 in Islantilla, Huelva. The…

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May 29, 2019

PhD graduate Valeria Bernardo awarded Funcas prize for best dissertation in social sciences

The PhD graduate in Economics Dr Valeria Bernardo has been awarded the Enrique Fuentes Quintana Prize by the Spanish Savings Banks Foundation (Funcas) for the best dissertation in the field of social sciences for the academic year 2017/18. The Enrique Fuentes Quintana prize for Social Sciences recognises the efforts, commitment and hard work required to complete a doctoral thesis and is awarded to doctoral theses in the field of Economics…

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