
Alvaro Martinez PerezThe University of Sheffield | Sheffield · Department of Sociological Studies
Alvaro Martinez Perez
PhD Applied Social and Economic Research
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Introduction
Alvaro Martinez is Lecturer in International and Comparative Social Research Methods at the Department of Sociological Studies (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) . He earned his doctorate in Applied Social and Economic Research from the University of Essex ( United Kingdom). Prior to joining the University of Sheffield he worked as an evaluator of public policies for the Government of the Autonomous Province of Trento (IRVAPP - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Organisational Analysis at the University of Barcelona. In Sheffield he has been Research Associate for the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Management School. His research interests include social stratification and inequalities in the family, gender, labor
Additional affiliations
September 2015 - present
October 2014 - August 2015
September 2011 - June 2012
Education
October 2005 - September 2010
Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of Essex)
Field of study
- Applied Social and Economic Research
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Publications (41)
Recognizing that enterprises operate at varying levels of informality, this paper evaluates the determinants of their degree of informality. Reporting a 2012 survey of 300 informal microenterprises in the city of Lahore in Pakistan, the finding is that the key predictors of their level of informality are the characteristics of the entrepreneur and...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether men and women starting a business use the informal economy and do so to test the viability of their venture.
Design/methodology/approach
– To do this, the results of a survey of 595 small business owners in the UK conducted in August 2012 are reported.
Findings
– Of the 22 per cent of men...
To evaluate critically the dominant discourse that consumers acquiring goods and services in the informal economy are rational economic actors seeking a lower price, the results of a 2007 Eurobarometer survey involving 26,659 face-to-face interviews in 27 European Union member states form the basis for analysis. The finding is that achieving a lowe...
Although non-ideological voters make up a considerable share of the electorate, the literature has systematically overlooked their voting behaviour. Using Spanish electoral data from the 1979-2008 electoral period, we seek to identify the alternative cues ?in the absence of ideology? these voters may use when casting their ballot. We do not find th...
This research used a food systems approach to examine the impact of labour supply shortages on key aspects of the food system. It provides insight into the consequences of labour shortages as reported in 2021, the complex processes that combined to create the shortages and the resultant impact on the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) ability to effecti...
This book offers a systematic exploration of the role of religion and religiosity in electoral politics in Catholic, Protestant, and religiously mixed countries across Western Europe and in the United States. The chapters approach the relationship between religion, religiosity, and electoral behaviour from a variety of different angles. They includ...
This volume provides the most systematic study on the role of religion and religiosity in electoral politics in Catholic, Protestant, and religiously mixed countries across Western Europe and in the United States, from the Second World War until the second decade of the new century. The volume’s main argument is that, despite the expectations of se...
Vaccination can sufficiently ameliorate the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Investigating what factors influence vaccine uptake may benefit ongoing vaccination efforts (e.g. booster injections, annual vaccination). The present study expanded Protection Motivation Theory with possible factors including perceived knowledge, adaptive responses, a...
Rather than portray formal and informal sector entrepreneurs as discrete groups, an emergent scholarship has conceptualized a continuum from wholly formal to wholly informal entrepreneurs. The aim of the article is to advance a degree of (in)formality approach by evaluating whether the institutional determinants found to explain whether an enterpri...
CROOK public service fellowships • Public policy and research needs a more nuanced understanding of single parent family life, reflecting how households change over time and looking beyond households to understand the true nature of 'family'. • Experiencing single parenthood is more common than typically reported. While surveys typically suggest th...
This article investigates the relationship between sharing domestic tasks in dual-earner mixed-sex couples and using of paid domestic services. Results from a small-scale survey of the domestic outsourcing practices of employees of a large service-sector organisation in the UK show that in households: full-time working by women and presence of youn...
Real-time response methods, which were developed by media and communication researchers as early as the 1940s, have significant potential for understanding media audiences today. However, this potential is not realized fully by current methods such as “the worm,” which are limited to collecting positive and negative responses and fail to examine wh...
To advance understanding of the entrepreneurship process in developing economies, this paper evaluates whether registered enterprises that initially avoid the cost of registration, and focus their resources on overcoming other liabilities of newness, lay a stronger foundation for subsequent growth. Analyzing World Bank Enterprise Survey data across...
Purpose
– Reflecting the moral theorisation of bribery as a negative phenomenon, bribery has been widely shown to have a deleterious impact at the national level on economic development and growth. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether it is also the case at the firm level that bribery has negative impacts on firm performance. Until now,...
Conventionally, corruption is viewed as deleterious to firm performance. Analysing World Bank Enterprise Survey firm-level data across 132 countries and controlling for other firm performance determinants, this paper finds that paying corrupt public officials enhances firm performance. This is argued to be because developing economies are character...
This chapter investigates the extent to which self-reported well-being, as measured by life satisfaction, for parents living in traditional (coupled mothers and fathers with dependant children) and new family arrangements (lone mothers and fathers) is affected by the use of work-life balance arrangements (WLB, henceforth) (formal and informal) as a...
La crisis económica ha incrementado la proporción de personas con ingresos inferiores al umbral de la pobreza. El objetivo de este artículo es radiografiar los principales perfiles de la pobreza que surgen con la crisis, así como rastrear las trayectorias de los nuevos pobres en los años de crisis. En el trabajo nos preguntamos quiénes se empobrece...
Over the past decade or so, two competing theoretical perspectives have arisen that explain participation in informal entrepreneurship as resulting from either too little or too much state intervention. To evaluate these competing explanations critically, the authors report on a 2012
UK survey of 595 small business owners. Twenty per cent of these...
The aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory analysis of factors that might explain the cross-national variations in the level tax morality across the European Union. In order to do this, three competing explanations for the cross-national variations in tax morality will be evaluated which variously view lower levels of tax morality to be a r...
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The aim is to evaluate critically whether small businesses start-up in
the informal economy and whether they do so to test-trade the viability of their
businesses. Reporting a 2012 survey of 595 small business owners in the UK,
20% report trading informally when starting their business, 64% of whom
asserted a main reason was to test its viability....
análisis del efecto de la Ley de igualdad en la representación electoral, parlamentaria y en el comportamiento electoral de las mujeres en las elecciones generales de 2008 Doctor en Sociología por la Universidad de Essex, y doctor miembro del Instituto Juan March, Madrid. Es en la actualidad investigador contratado "García Pelayo" en el Centro de E...
Although non-ideological voters make up a considerable share of the electorate, the literature has systematically overlooked their voting behaviour. Using Spanish electoral data from the 1979-2008 electoral period, we seek to identify the alternative cues —in the absence of ideology— these voters may use when casting their ballot. We do not find th...
This article explores the relationship between religiosity and voting decisions in Spain and Portugal. We study whether religion (measured as church attendance and opinions about moral issues) influences voting for the two main political parties. Results show a different relationship between religion and voting in both countries: only in Spain reli...
Although they make up a considerable share of the electorate, the literature has
overlooked the voting behaviour of non-ideological voters. Using Spanish electoral data from
the 1979-2004 electoral period, we seek to identify which alternative cues these voters may
use when they cast their ballot – providing ideology is not available. We do not fin...