A UAB study delves into the factors that influence recovery time after sick leave in the Spanish manufacturing sector. Researchers reveal significant disparities in gender, seniority, and company size. They recommend...
This study, in which Mario Pansera from the Department of Business of the UAB participates, proposes to modify the circular economy approach by also including the perspective of social justice. This new paradigm, the just circular economy, would put the focus of the transition to this...
Recent studies suggest that the economic growth is mainly due to technological improvements implemented by producers. However, an article published by researchers from ICTA-UAB...
Proliferation of tourist rentals presents two opposite mechanisms. On the one hand, it reverses the impact on the increase in price of long-term rentals and home purchases. On the other, in the areas where they are located there is an increase in...
The sustainability and well-being of our societies are based on a model built on the paradigm of technological determinism; belief that technology in itself affects positive socioeconomic development. "Innovate or die" is the...
High levels of CO2 in the atmosphere of Earth question the models of the actual larger metropolitan cities in terms of housing concentration and mobility distribution. The following study explores...
The present study, as a result of Lara Maestripieri’s doctoral thesis, addresses the types of management consultants, that is, the professional past of many of today's CEOs and a key experience...
The coexistence in Barcelona between inhabitants of different ethnic groups generates segregation by difference of income; not for ethnic reasons. This is evidenced by the analysis of the urban spatial structure of the city carried out by researchers from the...
The settlement of people in the territory responds to their personal and contextual preferences and it is based on the close relationships offered by the environment beyond the residential area. The study here presented has analyzed this issue through a...
What is the relationship between urbanization and economic development? Historically, both processes have gone hand in hand; developed countries are today also the most urbanized. However, during the last decades, many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, have undergone accelerated...
