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FORCA AL SENAT. Lluis Argemi. Joaquim Ferrer. Jaoquimá Alemany. Convergéncia I Unió. L'Unic Grup Parlamentari Catalá a Madrid.
No full textPolitical poster for Convergéncia I Unió (CiU), promoting Lluis Argemi, Joaquim Ferrer, Joaquimá Alemany for senate. Image includes a photograph of Argemi, Ferrer and Alemany
Implementación de una herramienta de metabúsqueda : MetaLib y SFX
No full textL'article presenta les característiques i funcionalitats principals de les eines MetaLib i SFX, programaris per a la gestió i accés als recursos electrònics. S'analitzen els programaris citant els diferents tipus de funcionalitats, i la gestió i el manteniment. El procés s'emmarca en l'experiència de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, membre del CBUC, i se n'expliquen la configuració, els reptes i les dificultats que es van produir durant la implementació dels sistemes.El artículo presenta las principales características y funcionalidades de las herramientas MetaLib y SFX, programas para la gestión y acceso a los recursos electrónicos. Se analizan ambos programas y se citan los diferentes tipos de funcionalidades, y su gestión y mantenimiento. El proceso se enmarca en la experiencia de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, miembro del CBUC; se explican la configuración, los retos y las dificultades que se produjeron durante la implementación de los sistemas.This article presents the main characteristics and functions of the e-resource management and access tools MetaLib and SFX. Both applications are analysed and their functions and their operating procedures are explained. The article outlines the experience of the Open University of Catalonia, UOC, a member of the Consortium of Catalan University Libraries (CBUC), in setting up these tools and describes the challenges and difficulties that arose
Of Mice and Men: Reflexiones sobre la ética de la experimentación animal
No full textEn el presente artículo se sostiene que la experimentación con animales es necesaria para generar una parte de los avances en los conocimientos médicos, pero sin ignorar el difícil e ineludible dilema moral que supone el imponer sufrimiento a unos seres a cambio de beneficios para otros que son, en esencia, muy similares a los primeros, tanto física como mentalmente. La similitud, cada vez más constatada por la ciencia, es rechazada por muchas personas para no tener mala conciencia por los numerosos usos y abusos que se hacen de los animales en la sociedad. Este rechazo encuentra reflejo en el ámbito legal y en el religioso, en los que se ha consolidado la equiparación de los animales a las cosas. Pero tal equiparación se revela cada vez menos plausible, y el trato hacia ellos dispensado cada vez menos justificable, con las crecientes evidencias sobre los sentimientos y la capacidad de raciocinio de los animales. La experimentación médica con animales es un caso especial, no obstante, por los importantes beneficios que reporta, que son reconocidos incluso por muchas personas preocupadas por la protección de los animales. Sin embargo, no pocos ciudadanos se manifiestan contrarios a estas prácticas al tiempo que desean beneficiarse de los avances médicos. Esta incoherente actitud puede deberse, por un lado, a que la sociedad no comprende la ciencia, y por otro al impacto de algunas campañas sensacionalistas en contra de la experimentación. Frente a todo esto, el autor plantea una serie de recomendaciones para el desarrollo de la actividad investigadora con animales basadas en la transparencia, la información, el reconocimiento del dilema ético y la participación en el debate que suscita, siempre con el objetivo de causar el menor sufrimiento posible.This essay argues that research on animals is necessary for the unhindered advancement of medical knowledge, but at the same time it recognises the moral dilemma of inflicting suffering on some beings for the benefit of others who are, in essence, very similar to them physically and mentally. The likeness, for which there is increasing scientific evidence, is rejected by many in order not to have bad conscience over the extensive use and abuse of animals in society. Such deeply rooted denial has been woven into most legal and religious traditions, which regard animals as things. This conception of animals is becoming increasingly implausible, and our poor treatment of them decreasingly justifiable, in the light of the amounting evidence regarding the existence and nature of their feelings and rationality. Medical research is a special case, however, because of the important benefits it provides, which many animal advocates are ready to admit. Nevertheless, a portion of society is against medical research on animals while still wanting to benefit from the medical advances. Such inconsistent attitudes may be due, on one hand, to the fact that people generally do not understand science, and on the other, to the impact of campaigns that selectively use very graphic examples of experiments. In this context the author proposes a set of recommendations for carrying out medical research on animals emphasising transparency, openness, recognition of the moral dilemma and participation in the debate it gives rise to, always keeping sight on the goal of minimising suffering
Should Workers Care About Firm Size?
No full textThe question of wage differentials by firm size has been studied for several decades with no commonly accepted explanations for why large firms pay more. In this paper, we reexamine the relationship between firm size and wage outcomes by estimating the returns to unmeasured ability between large and small firms. Our empirical methodology, based on non- linear instrumental variable estimations, allows us to directly estimate the returns to unmeasured ability by firm size and, therefore, to test the two main theories of wage determination proposed to explain the relationship between firm size and wages, namely ability sorting and job screening. We use data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), which provides longitudinal information on workers' and firms' characteristics, including establishment and firm size. We find significant differences in the returns to unmeasured ability across firm size. In particular, we find that the returns to unmeasured ability seem to follow a non-linear pattern. The returns to unmeasured ability are significantly higher in medium size (above 500, but below 1000 workers) firms relative to small firms. However, the returns to unmeasured ability are not significantly greater in large firms relative to medium or small firms. Overall, it seems that ability sorting dominates for moves from small to medium size firms in that ability is more productive and, therefore, more rewarded in the latter than the former. On the other hand, when firms become "too large," the monitoring costs hypothesis seems to dominate in that ability is not more rewarded than in smaller firms.Firm Size, Comparative Advantage, Self-selection, Job Screening, Ability Sorting
Eliseo Ferrer / About the fraudulent and sterile research on the origins of Christianity.Eliseo Ferrer / About the fraudulent and sterile research on the origins of Christianity.
No full textDodecalogue of errors and absurdities. / Eliseo Ferrer considers that the secular influence of the theology and dogmatics of the Church (inherited, to a large extent, by the Lutheran Reformers), as well as the ideology generated over eighteen centuries on the substrate of the New Testament, have led and continue to lead in the XXI century to great errors in the study and interpretation of the origins of Christianity. The author presents a list of twelve points with the errors that he considers the most important and most surprising and striking.</p
El Centenari de Ferrer: un balanç historiogràfic i pedagògic = Ferrer Centenary: a historiographical and pedagogical report
No full textAmb motiu del centenari de l'afusellament de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, l'autor
esbossa un balanç historiogràfic i pedagògic sobre el pedagog racionalista i l'Escola
Moderna.At the 100th anniversary of the execution of Francisco Ferrer, the author outlines
a historiographic and pedagogical assessment on the Rationalist pedagogist and the
Modern School.Con motivo del centenario del fusilamiento de Francisco Ferrer Guardia, el autor
esboza un balance historiográfico y pedagógico sobre el pedagogo racionalista y la
Escuela Moderna
Cynips incomptum Pujade-Villar and Ferrer-Suay 2015
No full textCynips incomptum (Kinsey, 1920) (Fig. 3) Andricus incomptum Kinsey, 1920: 306 Cynips incomptum (Kinsey) Pujade-Villar and Ferrer-Suay (2015: 8). Type material: ‘‘ San Luis Potosi, Mex., Kinsey cutex gall, 4.29.19 ’’, ‘‘ Andricus incomptus CO- TYPE’’ (red label), ‘‘ AMNH_IZC 00322871 ’’, ‘‘ LECTOTYPE Andricus incomptum Kinsey, 1920: 306 design. M. Ferrer-Suay 2016 ’’ (red label). Comments. According to the original description two female and 28 gall cotypes were deposited in the MCZ and in the author’s collection, and only a cotype gall in the AMNH. However, the female (cotype) was found in the Kinsey collection deposited in the AMNH and it is designated as lectotype and has been so labeled by the first author. This species was originally described as Andricus and was transferred to Cynips by Pujade- Villar and Ferrer-Suay (2015) because the head has no irradiating carinae and the ventral spine of hypopygium is wide with parallel sides, with an apical tuft of setae. Images of the lectotype and its labels are given in Fig. 3.Published as part of Mar Ferrer- Suay, James M. Carpenter, Christine Lebeau & Juli Pujade- Villar, 2017, Designation Of Lectotypes For The Mexican Species Of Andricus Described By Alfred Kinsey And Comments About Some Generic Synonymies (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), pp. 29-34 in Entomologica Americana 123 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.1664/1947-5144-123.1-4.29, http://zenodo.org/record/110112
La haute Provence de l'esprit
No full textPoem in French which includes an original frontispice by the author. Presentation: D'abord un poème itinérant, fait de rien, c'est-à-dire d'herbes, de vents des hauts plateaux, glanés au fil des sentiers vertigineux qui plongent dans le Verdon, et sur le contrefort des barres rocheuses. Ensuite, une déchirure faite dans le temps, libérée par l'état hypnotique de la fatigue, conduisant peu à peu à la spiritualisation du paysage. Olivier Salazar-Ferrer est né en 1962. Il est maître de conférences à l'Université de Glasgow au Royaume-Uni. Il est également l'auteur des textes poétiques suivants : Adieu à Terre rouge (2002), Eloge du peintre (2003), Poèmes du silence et de la neige (2003), La Roulotte peinte (2004) chez le même éditeur
Homenaje a Aldo Ferrer
No full textOn April 21, 2015, a presentation of the book Aldo Ferrer y sus días. Ideas, trajectory and memories of an economist by Marcelo Rougier, which paid tribute to Ferrer's figure and trajectory. The author of the book participated in the event as moderator, together with two of Ferrer's outstanding collaborators: Arturo O'Connell and Juan Sourrouille. The honoree himself closed the event with a few brief words alluding to the points that his colleagues had previously expressed at the table. The speeches are transcribed here, in order to pay our homage to the figure of Ferrer.El 21 de abril de 2015 se realizó en el Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (ides) una presentación del libro Aldo Ferrer y sus días. Ideas, trayectoria y recuerdos de un economista de Marcelo Rougier, en la que se efectuó un homenaje a la figura y la trayectoria de Ferrer. En ese evento participó el autor del libro como moderador, junto con dos destacados colaboradores de Ferrer: Arturo O’Connell y Juan Sourrouille. El propio homenajeado cerró el evento, con unas breves palabras alusivas a los planteos que sus colegas habían exteriorizado precedentemente en la mesa. Se transcriben aquí las alocuciones, a fin de brindar nuestro homenaje a la figura de Ferrer
Essays in Wealth Effect, Family Structure, and Female Labour Supply
No full textThis thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating topics in family structure, household wealth, and married women's labour decisions using Canadian data.
The twentieth century has seen significant changes in family formation and dissolution in Canada. Chapter 1, co-authored with Ana Ferrer, investigates the role of family structure (family disruption or reconstitution) on cognitive outcomes of primary school Canadian children. We focus on reading and math scores of these children and look into differential effects by gender as well as child’s cultural background, which is an important dimension to consider in diverse societies. Using the rich panel data information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), collected biennially since 1994, we find substantial disadvantages in reading, but not math, scores among children in single parent families, relative to children in intact families. However, we find that single parenthood seems to affect boys more than girls in terms of their reading performance, but girls’ math performance suffers more than that of boys when in step families. In addition, when looking into differential effects across cultural/religious affiliations of family structure on cognitive performance, we typically observe differential effects in math, but no reading scores. These results suggest that exploring the heterogeneity of children’s performance responses to family disruption might be an important factor in assessing the benefits of programs aimed at helping children to cope with family disruptions.
It is worth noting that changes in marital status of parents not only affect their children's performances but also influence their own welfare. The spouse (typically the wife), who usually has less labour market attachment compared to the other spouse (typically the husband) due to the traditional gender roles, is less likely to accumulate much assets during the marriage. Therefore, this spouse with less assets might have less intra-household bargaining power and could potentially face worse financial conditions in the event of a divorce compared to the other one. Chapter 2, co-authored with Stéphanie Lluis, studies a reform of the marital property law following the amendment of the Civil Code of Quebec to improve economic equality between spouses by imposing an equal division of the family assets when a marriage ends. This change created an unexpected shift in the bargaining power of the spouse with relatively lower investment in the family assets, usually the wife. We explore whether and if so how the changes in this redistributive divorce law impacted female spouses' labour market decisions and individuals’ marital decisions. We use a difference-in-difference approach and exploit detailed information on female labour supply and marital status from the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) data to analyze outcomes before and after the reforms in Quebec, relative to other provinces which did not experience marital property law changes over that time period. We find that the reform of marital property law that improve economic equality between spouses in Quebec reduced married women’s hours of work and the adverse employment effect is relatively stronger for less educated women (the most disadvantaged spouse) and among couples with larger wealth as measured by the ownership of the couples’ property. At the extensive margin, we find that the redistributive law change significantly decreased the labour force participation of the relatively more educated married women but increased the labour force participation of the relatively less educated women (among married women who stayed married). This differential result by education among married women suggests that the labour supply impact of the redistributive law change likely depends on the decision to stay married as marital decisions are also part of the household bargaining outcome. We investigate this question by studying the Quebec amendment impact on divorce rates and the decisions of whom to marry. We find that the redistributive law change had no impact on overall divorce but significantly increased the likelihood of divorce/separations among less educated spouses. In addition, over the sample of young individuals deciding whether or not to marry, the Civil Code amendment contributed to increasing the proportion of marriages in which the wife is more educated than the husband.
The intra-household bargaining position is not the only factor that could affect female labour supply as well as people's marital decisions. The wealth of a household is also another important factor that might influence spouses' decisions in the labour and marriage markets. Chapter 3 examines the impact that changes in household wealth due to the house price variations during the 1990s and 2000s had on the labour market behaviour of Canadian married women. House prices in Canada have tripled over the past decades. This dramatic rise has essential effects on households' wealth and the wealth effects might be different on house owners versus renters (potential house buyers). I use time-series average house prices data from the Canadian Real Estate Association's Multiple Listing Service data set (CREA MLS) which covers the entire Canada, 102 real estate boards (REBs), and provides detailed geographical variations in house prices in both urban and rural areas. Then, I link these house prices to each respondent in the confidential longitudinal household files - the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). Estimating the causal effects of housing wealth changes on female labour supply is challenging. For instance, The life-cycle theory of the labour supply emphasizes that unexpected gains in wealth should decrease household labour supply. However, wealth changes due to rising house prices could be anticipated by a household. Thus, there might be no effect if the household was forward looking and incorporated these expected wealth changes into their decisions. In addition, the reverse causality between house prices and female labour supply has been highlighted in literature. Rising housing prices induce more female spouses to participate in the labour market to offset the future housing purchase costs if their families intend to enter homeownership or balance rising rental prices. Nonetheless, it is also plausible that more working women in one area, which contributes to a higher proportion of two-earner households with stronger payment capacities, may bid up the house prices there. Therefore, I apply two strategies to overcome these challenges. My first strategy is to calculate a measure of house-price shocks which is aimed at capturing unexpected variations in local house prices, rather than variations that could be anticipated by people. My second strategy is constructing comprehensive and exogenous topography instruments to address the reverse causality between the house prices and female labour supply. After capturing unexpected changes in local house prices, among house owners, I find that an increase in (positive) house-price shocks causes a reduction in the likelihood of participation of married women. At the intensive margin, I find that an increase in the house price shocks induces a decrease in annual work hours of a woman at the low percentile. Additionally, I find heterogeneous effects of house-price shocks on women's labour supply depending on their education level and residence locations. These results are consistent with the prediction of family labour supply and life-cycle models, which indicates that unexpected gains in wealth should decrease household labour supply. There is no evidence showing that house-price shocks have labour effect on renters in this study, which might suggest that they choose to delay to enter homeownership or find a cheaper residence instead of adjusting their labour supply when an appreciation of house prices occurs. The IV approach which uses the fraction of buildable land and the difference in elevation as the instruments also provides consistent results as the house-price shock approach does
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