EDUCATION

Author: PAZ FERNANDEZ PEDRO DE.
Year: 2003.
University: PAÍS VASCO [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: Following an introduction on the concept of equity as applied to education, understood essentially as equal opportunities and attention to diversity, the thesis is focused on: a) Analyze equity at the time of access or admission of pupils in the non-university educational environment of the Basque Country. Â Are equal opportunities of access to education? Â Are they the same choice of school? B) Carry out a measure of fairness in relation to the provision of resources and the supply of supplementary educational activities on the part of schools of the Basque Country. Â Are they the same resources that are gifted centers? Â Is Like the supply of supplementary educational activities - so important for the integral formation of students who receive educational? The last part presents the findings on both issues and proposes a number of indications on the line to increase equity in the education system not the Basque university.

Author: Teijeiro Álvarez Ma. Mercedes.
Year: 2004.
University: A CORUÑA [www.udc.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.

Summary: The aim of the thesis focuses on the empirical analysis of the employment of young people in Galicia and in the analysis of the profitability of education. The research on the investment in human capital, their costs and benefits, it is certainly a topic of special interest. This is añeade the fact that this research is an effort that can bring added value to the knowledge of the labor market in Galicia. Before proceeding with the establishment of the hypothesis of departure, the author makes an object-oriented approach to the study directed work afterwards. The research is divided into six chapters. Following the introduction, chapter dods presents a study on the evolution of the economics of education, regarded it as an economic good; reviewed the most important theories on education in the light of available literature, always under the right approach for getting the job done. In Chapter three presents an assessment of the situation in the labor market and the stock educational Eespaña, taking a comparative approach to the situation in other countries around us. The fourth chapter focuses on the theoretical development of the measurement of return on investment in education, stressing the importance in making educational decisions acquires the measurement of beneficions and costs, both public and private. The specification of the factors that can influence to find a job is not easy. There are a multitude of factors microeconomic nature. This research work takes a more macro view by the very nature of the data available and by the extreme complexity that presents the decision-making process of a young at the time to accept a job among the various alternatives and after a process of decision where the agent appreciates the costs and benefits. Chapter five discusses the impact of education on wages. It is a chapter of empirical content. They are used econometric and statistical techniques appropriate to the subject of research work. It describes the data and its fuesntes, techniques and results. The work is rigorous in all its aspects. Chapter six is dedicated to the findings. It ends with a comprehensive, updated and complete bibliographic references consulted. It adds a statistical annex.

Author: WAISGRAIS OLINIK SEBASTIAN.
Year: 2004.
University: PÚBLICA DE NAVARRA [www.unavarra.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD PUBLICA DE NAVARRA.

Summary: This study intends to investigate about the problem of youth employment in the transition from education to the labor market at the end of the nineties in Argentina, from data from the Survey of Social Development and the Survey Permanent Household. The aim of the thesis was to study the role of educational credentials and personal characteristics of youth in entering the job market, potential mismatches between youth education and the requirements of the job and, finally, the relationship between the informal economy and the labor market segmentation. To do so, first, we analyze the role of educational credentials and personal characteristics of youth in the insertion into the labor market from discrete choice models. Secondly, we study the problem of over - and assesses the existence of a crowding effect on the labor market through logistic models multinomiales and tidy, as well as wage equations. Next, a study was conducted on the informal economy, understood as a form of segmentation, between formal sector, modern, to comply with the labor standards, which includes modern technology, as opposed to an informal sector, unstable and precarious in terms of employment. We propose that the dichotomy informal / formal can be used as a criterion for defining each of the segments in a dual labor market. This will assess wage differentials between different segments of occupation, we analyze the patterns of mobility among various states working through transition matrices, and finally, we study the determinants that influence the probability of transition from one sector to another. Finally, it summarizes the main findings, which reflect the central contributions of this study are proposed recommendations and future lines of inquiry.

Author: Moreno Herrero Dolores.
Year: 2004.
University: GRANADA [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.

Summary: The objective of this research is to analyze the process of expansion of private universities in Spain during the nineties, trying to explain their growth patterns and location in relation to public universities. It examines the costs of the first in connection with the latest, descriptively and through an econometric model which can be inferred from the evolució costs depending on the size of the institutions. We are analyzing the results of private universities in terms of graduation, through the use of indicators, especialemnte with graduation rates calculated on the basis of pooled data from several years. Mediente analysis cluster is classified as both universidasdes closed degrees offered by them. The analysis of these issues suggests that the expansion of private universities has been in the regions with the highest economic level in a context of lack of population pressure and reduction of cohorts

Author: FABRA FLORIT MARIA EUGENIA.
Year: 2005.
University: VALENCIA [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT D'ECONOMIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT D'ECONOMIA.

Summary: The thesis is presented that aims to generic expand and improve understanding of the effects of individual investment in education to analyze its value. Traditionally, the benefits of investment in education have been analyzed in terms of increase in the production capacity and reduce costs associated with production. However, the economic value of education is broader because it gives the individual greater efficiency in decision-making in various areas of his life, which affects an increase in the access to better jobs, better the quality of life and health status and in the decisions of consumption. These effects of monetary character should not be regarded as benefits of investment in education and resulting increase in the potential for welfare or satisfaction. Given that in economic terms the degree of satisfaction of an individual reflects their level of utility, the impact of education on nives welfare can bring through the trials being carried out by individuals from their own levels of job satisfaction. Based on this approach, the study presented advances in the understanding of the economic value of education by proposing new determinants, related to education, that the economic model of complete satisfaction and placing new herramietnas econometric estimate that allow the complex interrelationships that exist between the determinants of job satisfaction.

Author: CASQUERO TOMÁS ANTONIO.
Year: 2005.
University: MÁLAGA [www.uma.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The main aim of the thesis is the economic analysis of Vocational Training in Spain from a perspective microeconométrica. In particular, describe its evolution and analyze the factors that determine demand and the process of integration into the work of its graduates. To achieve these goals the contents of the thesis is divided into four chapters. The first show deals with the theoretical foundations of the investigation carried out, in the second, a conceptual approach and a detailed historical review of the vocational stream. The third and fourth chapters are providing empirical thesis. Specifically, by using the econometric techniques relevant, they analyze the determinants of individual demand for training and the process for finding jobs for young Spaniards.

Author: HIDALGO HIDALGO MARÍA LUISA.
Year: 2005.
University: ALICANTE [www.ua.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD CC. ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CC. ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: This thesis consists of three chapters that analyze the process of accumulation of human capital, providing its service and its role in economic activity. In particular, the first chapter examines public involvement in education by the government, taking into account the link between the various levels of education: compulsory and non-compulsory, it must decide how to optimally distributed as a budget between these two levels of education , and how this optimal allocation could be affected by the presence of restrictions on capital. The second chapter examines public involvement in education when the government has to decide how to group the students, taking into account the existence of the effects that have companions on the academic performance of students. This chapter considers two possible education systems: "tracking" (separar9 and "mixing" (together), and proposes several criteria for comparison. Lastly, the third chapter discusses the interaction between universities. Specifically studies the relationship between finance systems universities and their decision between specialize in teaching or research in a context (like today) where universities compete for faculty and resources.

Author: BARRENETXEA AYESTA MIREN.
Year: 2005.
University: PAÍS VASCO [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The core of the thesis is an analysis of quality models and assessment in higher education in the European Union. Based on the idea that both models as quality assessment models are mere tools and the success of the same university in the world has been valued by the actual results they had on the three activities to which they devote UNIVERSITIES: teaching, research and management. Over the thesis that the more we look, as the less investigated is the first one, teaching. Over the work provides a critical review of the most relevant input on quality and evaluation, in order to achieve a synthesis of approaches from both disciplines applicable to higher education. It also discusses the various initiatives undertaken by the European Union in these matters, because we believe that the government have played an important role in the empowerment of either model. Finally, we analyzed assessment programs from the agencies that evaluation have been implemented in the period 1992-2005 in three European countries: United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain. This revision is intended a dual purpose, first, to know if there is a convergence in the systems and evaluation methods used and secondly, whether some of the programs it has opened up changes towards improving quality.

Author: Coto Quintana Gisela.
Year: 2006.
University: A CORUÑA [www.udc.es].
Place of defense: Escuela Politécnica Superior de Ferrol.
Place of preparation: Escuela Politécnica Superior.

Summary: The objective of this paper is to provide evidence to justify the equivalence between the evaluation system of university degrees employed in the countries surveyed and a proposal for mutual recognition of accreditation and certification systems. To fulfill this objective, conducted a pilot part by applying models to assess a country to evaluation reports racing another country. We comparisons and analysis of the content, structure and other aspects associated with assessment models and suggested optimum that integrates aspects of the various models studied and provides the main results obtained in the investigation. The main conclusions of this thesis are: - There was evidence of the equivalence between systems evaluation and could propose an assessment model that fosters optimal approval of securities and mutual recognition of qualifications among countries. - Optimal model was proposed assessment for the accreditation mandatory or voluntary Engineering Colleges to ensure, initially, compliance with minimum requirements (required) and then move towards excellence requirements (voluntary) - The differences in terms and concepts used in countries hinder the integration of models and the evaluation of international qualifications. It is feasible to integrate a model for accreditation of engineering model with a generic or specific aspects placing mandatory requirements in an addendum. - It is crucial to improve the approach and implementation of an evaluative model by establishing clear links between aspects to be evaluated and information, data and indicators that underpin the analysis. - We must improve the guidelines and techniques used to ensure the quality of self-evaluation reports and external evaluation to the evaluative judgments obtained as a result of the analysis of evidence is valid and properly grounded. - There should be an adequate scale (wide-range) for the evaluation of various aspects, criteria or subcriteria to achieve accuracy in the results of the evaluation (strengths and weaknesses) - The approach and application of the model should be considered the "curriculum "and" academics "as components of larger weight in the rating. - The definition of weights and aspects criterion by which assesses allows an objective evaluation, since it guarantees that the model is flexible in its application depending on the nature of the race. - It must define standards or minimum requirements for evaluating aspects that allow for a more objective assessment, some of these may be generic, however many will address the specifics of the discipline.

Author: ARRANZ VAL PABLO.
Year: 2006.
University: BURGOS [www.ubu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The objective of this research is to define a system for the recognition of diplomas grade in the Company to detect different levels of quality and also can serve as an instrument in advancing its continuous improvement. The completion of the investigation carried out is the proposal, following the international trend of quality assurance, accreditation of a model for this kind of specific qualifications. After an exhaustive analysis of the quality assurance systems in higher education (approval, evaluation and accreditation), and specifically in the field of studies of the Company, has conducted a survey of opinion on the situation in Spanish centers, public and private, which offered the degrees of Bachelor of Business Administration (LADE), and / or degree in Business Management (DCE) from the perspective of those responsible for the respective centers in the following aspects: first the consequences that have institutional assessment processes in the cells and the analysis of the various improvement measures carried out in them, and secondly, on the features that should have a degree qualification in the Company to be a best qualifications and what are the constraints on improving their quality and thirdly, topics to be considered in future processes for accreditation of qualifications in the field of the Company. The main findings are as follows: 1) The impact of the assessment processes are related to the issuance of reports, collecting evidence and improvement of information systems to be supporting these processes. However, it should be noted that there is a perception that there has been no improvement in academic performance and satisfaction of the students, despite the improvement plans in place qualifications. 2) The actions of revision and improvement implanted in these centers are linked to the international dimension (mobility of students and teachers), relations with business, the agendas of the subjects, technological infrastructure, the empowerment of new teaching methodologies, and have not taken action to revise and improve on aspects related to the criteria and procedures for selecting students and the curriculum. 3) The characteristics that must be undergraduate studies at the Company are related to the occupational profile of qualifications, skills and competencies demanded by enterprises, the practical dimension of the curriculum, both in terms teoría-práctica as in conducting training in companies and, finally, teachers, in terms of its structure and qualifications. 4) The aspects which have a higher degree of conditionality in improving the quality of the deeds are the involvement of teachers and the students, and the least, the administrative processes. 5) There is a need to implement quality assurance systems in the solid university degrees, in line with the requirements set by the European Higher Education Area. The current international quality assurance systems leads to accreditation. 6) To seek accreditation is a recognition of what kind international accreditation criteria to be established in the model of accreditation should be aligned with those established at the international level. 7) The criteria for accreditation should be different for each degree and qualifications suited to the Enterprise, which are internationally recognized and, moreover, allow establecimi 8 nt of 46e different levels of compliance. 8) should be active participation of Associations and / or Professional Colleges associated with this qualification. 9) The criteria for accreditation of degree certificates from the scope of the company are: objectives of the program of training, curriculum, teaching-learning process, students, teachers, relations with the Company, international dimension and results.