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Estimation of the price elasticity of the Spanish households’ electricity demand
(2022)
In the past few months the electricity price has considerably increased in Spain due to major international crises which lead to instability in the market. To understand better how Spanish households change their consumption ...
Subjective well-being and consumption: defining the relationship and exploring the effects of overconsumption
(2023)
Previous economic studies on subjective well-being have primarily focused on income, and limited research has been conducted on the relationship between consumption and subjective well-being, which lies at the core of ...
Labor market transitions and the emancipation of young people
(2022)
Youth emancipation is defined as the state of independence that young people achieve when they have a job and can afford housing independent of their parents. In the last decade, Spain shows a growing number of young people ...
The Fiscal Implications of Energy Transition in the Transport Sector: A Case Study of the Basque Country
(2023)
This Master Thesis analyses the socioeconomic and fiscal challenges that arise from the transition towards a climate-neutral economy by 2050 in the Basque Country. The research focuses on the gradual elimination of fossil ...
Spanish income mobility in the period 2017-2020
(2023)
Income mobility is a dynamic phenomenon that may pave the way for the establishment of egalitarian societies aimed at enhancing the global welfare of the individuals and dismantling social and economic concerns such as ...
Evolvement of a household’s income after retirement: A microeconomic study into French and Spanish households
(2023)
Replacement rates are an effective way to analyze how income evolves following the retirement of an individual as the ratio of pre- and post-retirement income. Individuals generally live in a multi-person household, which ...
Understanding segregation patterns in Chilean primary schools
(2023)
This study aims to achieve two primary objectives to comprehend segregation patterns in Chilean primary schools. To fulfill these goals, we compute the school segregation index (SSI) to assess the distribution of students ...
Improving the understanding of individual and household characteristics in the analysis of poverty in Bolivia
(2022)
This thesis aims to determine to what extent differences in individual and household characteristics within the same country affect the poverty of different areas of Bolivia or different social groups. The analysis is ...
Pigmentocracy, social mobility and inequality of opportunity in Mexico
(2020)
Wealth inequality in Mexico has gained attention in recent years, with a public responding to economic realities that precipitate less security and a more narrow horizon of opportunity for its citizens. This paper examines ...
Analysing energy poverty in Spain
(2019)
In this thesis we study energy poverty in Spain both at the level of concept and reality, using the Spanish family budgets survey for the year 2010. First we introduce the phenomenon of energy poverty analysing lightly its ...