INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Author: LÓPEZ GODOY MANUEL.
Year: 2003.
University: ALMERÍA [www.ual.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: This Doctoral Thesis has been directed towards exploratory research that has enabled us to analyze the Information Systems Directorate available for farm businesses to participate operating in the horticultural sector Almeria. In order to achieve the goal above, the investigation into four chapters. In chapter I have discussed the environment in which it operates the horticultural sector Almeria. This look both legals regulations affecting them (especially the EU) as the process of generating value-added sector (from the inputs necessary for the production process to the final consumer). In Chapter II studied farm businesses to participate -Cooperativas Agricultural and Agricultural Society of Transformación- who work in this sector, in areas such as economic significance, legislation that affects you and your business goals. The farms of participation are central role satisfying the needs of its partners, which means that not only pursue economic objectives but also social. In this chapter we have identified the theoretical goals of the agricultural cooperatives, analyzed both espíruto of these entities (represented by the principles of the ICA) and the regulations that exist. The study of the objectives we have to identify the different activities that the agricultural cooperatives are making to achieve them. We believe that the study of the activities of the agricultural cooperatives in a territory like the Andalusian allows us to extrapolate the results to the rest of the state. To identify these activities have made an empirical study of a sample of agricultural cooperatives Andalusian selected function in the industry to which they belong and the geographical area in which it was located. The statistical treatment of the data has allowed us to identify all the efforts and the importance they attach to the managers. In chapter III, we analyze the theory Quota and the rationale for their use at present. On one side has been able to provide a comprehensive and consolidated methodological body, and secondly, for his extensive empirical implementation at the international level, which has helped validate it. He then discusses the basic concepts about Information Systems Management. Finally we make an empirical study on a sample of farms participation horticultural Almeria applying a quota approach, with the aim of describing the situation in the sector in terms of the features that present their Information Systems Management. In chapter IV identicarnos and posicionamos Information System for Management aimed at the liquidation using farm businesses to participate hortofrutículas Almeria within the various existing models liquidation. To describe it in the first place its production process, and secondly make analytically settlement systems used, in order to facilitate understanding, and lastly, we see the degree of homogenization of settlement systems among the various agricultural enterprises to participate analyzed.

Author: CASADO MARÍN DAVID SERGIO.
Year: 2004.
University: POMPEU FABRA [www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA Y EMPRESA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The two main objectives of the thesis is on the one hand, to analyze the way in which today are cared for elderly dependents in our country and, secondly, to discuss the economic impact of various forms of public intervention in the current. Thus, in the first chapter, after defining what the problems of dependency and review the major instruments developed for quantification, used microdata from the Survey of Disability to derive estimates on the number of elderly dependents currently in Spain, and to analyze the key variables associated with the occurrence of such problems among the older population. The second chapter, for its part, is responsible for analyzing the factors that determine the choices made by dependents between different sources of help available (home care, support informal entry into a residence, etc..). In this sense, the primary goal of the chapter is to evaluate empirically the private costs currently borne by those who have no access to public services, as well as the criteria that, in practice, determine that access. Finally, through the development of a microsimulation model, the third chapter attempts to assess various schemes posed some public access criteria and performance than the current ones. The valuation of such alternatives, as well as by the volume of public resources that its implementation would require in each case, is taking into account the intensity with which each of them achieved mitigate the negative impact that today poses to the families having to privately finance the bulk of the costs that causes dependence.

Author: ARELLANO ESPINAR FRANCISCO ALFONSO.
Year: 2004.
University: CARLOS III DE MADRID [www.uc3m.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y JURIDICAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID.

Summary: This thesis analyzes various active employment measures carried out in Spain over the past several years using the Survival Analysis and Causal Inference. In Chapter I examines the relationship between duration of unemployment and training courses for unemployed economic difficulties developed by the National Employment Institute (INEM). They are used estimates of Kaplan and Meier, methods and duration in time continuous parametric and semi-paramétricos to analyze the relationship. Chapter II discusses the impact on unemployment and the quality of employment in the Spanish labor market reforms which took place in 2001, extending the collective affected by the reform of 1997, the largest age groups, using different methods differences for non-experimental data. In Chapter III discusses the effects of outplacement services individually and collectively made by a private outplacement largest in the country (Creade) between 1998 and 2003 on the duration in unemployment to a group of workers in Spain.