Category Archives: Doctoral thesis

Active labour market policies: effects and predictions for policy design

This doctoral dissertation aims to provide evidence for the design of active labour market policies (ALMPs). The research is structured into two main objectives: evaluating the effectiveness of specific design features of ALMPs on employment outcomes and assessing jobseeker profiling

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Labour trajectories in low-wage occupations: the cases of Spain and Chile

This research seeks to understand the work experience of workers in low-wage occupations. To this end, the research proposes a mixed methods and comparative study. The incorporation of the quantitative perspective accounts for a structural view of working poverty, while

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The mobilisation of social capital in unstable employment trajectories

The doctoral thesis is part of the CAPSINES project (Accumulation and use of social capital in young people with unstable employment trajectories), a project interested in the effects that inequalities in the personal network of contacts and the resources embedded

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Comparative study on the trade union strategies of dockers in the face of technological change processes in the ports of San Antonio (Chile) and Barcelona (Spain) (2024)

Ports have historically been crucial spaces in sustaining the economy, first as neuralgic points within cities and then in global logistic chains. As Braudel (1987) pointed out, they have been a dense and above all complex system, inseparable from unequal

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Precariousness and public employment in terms of gender. A look at municipal services in Chile (2024)

The thesis analyses the factors that influence the feminisation of job insecurity in Chilean municipal employment. The thesis approaches this question from a theoretical foundation that combines the gender perspective with different theories and approaches to labour precariousness. This theoretical

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Social Mobility: Chile and Spain in Comparative Perspective (2023)

In recent decades, Chile and Spain have undergone processes of development and economic growth, each with different political and governmental approaches. Chile has adopted a neoliberal model characterized by a subsidiary state, while Spain has tended towards a welfare state

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Direct participation practices and psychosocial risks at work. Empirical characterisation of a controversial relationship (2023)

In both the sociology of work and the public health, there continues to be considerable controversy about the effects of direct participation practices on working conditions. A limited amount of research has addressed this relationship from the perspective of psychosocial

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Gender relations in public organizations. Time, work and transformations (2022)

The main objective of this doctoral thesis is to understand why, despite the increase of women in the spaces of political representation, political organizations still reproduce an unequal distribution of political power by gender. For this purpose, structuralist theoretical approaches

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The relationship between training and employment in dual vocational training. Implications for the education-work transition (2022)

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the probable school-work transition of those who have studied the dual mode in Vocational Training. The research takes as a reference the whole of Spain but focuses on the reality of

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The process of gender institutionalization in the Chilean State 2006-2016. Discourses, strategies and modes of interaction (2021)

This research work – and its researcher – is positioned from a feminist perspective that dialogues with sociology and political science, to explain and interpret the role and position of the State in the face of gender inequalities. From the

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