IESE Professor Xavier Vives is among the “Top Ten Most Cited Spanish Social Scientists”, according to a survey conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information. The top-ranked Spanish social scientist is sociologist Manuel Castells. Sociologist and political scientist Juan J. Linz occupies second place in the ranking and economist Andreu Mas-Colell, third.
The ranking of the [...]
The Spanish association of insurers (UNESPA) has just launched a report about the Spanish state pension system. The study, carried out by Rodrigo Rato, Juan Manuel Eguigaray, Víctor Pérez Díaz, José Maria Fidalgo, Xavier Sala I Martín, Juan Chozas and Pilar González de Frutos, highlights the need to extend the pensionable age to beyond 65. [...]
The European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) has just published a study conducted by the Spanish National Health and Safety at Work Institute, “Working Conditions of Non-standard Workers”, which sheds light on the working conditions of certain groups of workers, including self-employed workers, those who are not registered with social security, migrant workers and workers on [...]
Adecco has presented the results of the latest edition of its labor market index of the Spanish autonomous regions (ILCA, for its Spanish acronym), which was conducted by IESE-IRCO researchers. The report covers the third quarter of 2009 and includes forecasts for the first quarter of 2010.
The main conclusions of the study are:
Evolution of the [...]
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MoviStar leads this year’s rankings of the most valuable Spanish brands, conducted by Interbrand for Actualidad Económica. BBVA and Telefónica occupy second and third place, respectively. The ranking does not include Santander or Zara, which are widely considered global brands.
In order to qualify for the rankings, the brands must be clearly Spanish in origin [...]
La Caixa is viewed as the financial institution with the best reputation in Spain – a status it has enjoyed since as far back as 2002 -, according to this year’s edition of Merco Financial Brands, a highly-respected business ranking survey conducted by the Spanish Monitor of Corporate Reputation (MERCO).
The ranking is based on the [...]
The European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) has just published the survey “Working Conditions and Quality of Life in Spanish Workplaces.” It contains the results of two surveys, “The Sixth National Survey on Working Conditions” and “The Survey of Quality of Life in the Workplace,” which results reveal that many Spanish workers seem to still be [...]
In June there were 1,386,500 young people working in Spain, just over half the total figure in 1976. This is largely due to the ageing population. However, there can be no denying that the situation has been severely exacerbated by the recent sharp rise in unemployment, which now affects as much as 38.1% of those [...]
This article from Oxford Analytica examines one of the features setting the recession in Spain apart from those in other countries: the exceptional rise in unemployment to close to 20 percent of the Spanish labor force. In August, Spain had the highest rate of the EU-27, double the EU-average.
Much of the increase in unemployment is [...]
The latest edition of a research project into the growth of Spanish companies (Proyecto de Investigación: Análisis del Crecimiento de la Empresa Española, AC-E) has just been published. The first edition of the project was launched back in 2005 with the aim of carrying out an in-depth study of the factors at play in determining [...]
