José Mondéjar-Jiménez

• Professor of Economic Statistics
• Professor (Full) at University of Castilla-La Mancha

Employment conditions, wages and the way they are determined are issues that continue to be of interest in the economic literature. However, previous authors have focused more on analysing the wage returns of specific factors rather than studying the causal relationship, the strength and the direct and indirect effects that these determinants have...

At all levels of education, gamification has taken a leading role among innovative teaching techniques, as it allows for the diversification of activities within the classroom, providing a playful approach to learning. However, the academic literature suffers from a clear lack of empirical evidence to support these claims, especially in its applica...

The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought significant challenges on both national and regional economic systems, resulting in an exacerbation of poverty and a deceleration of economic growth. These repercussions have led to increased social tensions and discontent. Tuscany a key player in the Italian and European economies, warrants scrutiny concerning its...

The hospitality industry is commonly perceived as having low-added value and providing precarious jobs. Heretofore, academics have delved into measuring the determining factors of wages and the wage gap, especially between genders, but the latter question is not fully developed. Thus, through binomial logistic regressions and 2018 data from the Spa...

Analysing gender differences in key industries is one of today's priorities to achieve a more egalitarian society. In hospitality, the classic approach is through Mincerian regressions or wage decompositions. This paper addresses this issue through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) and Importance-Performance Map Analysis...

La modelización de la demanda turística y su comportamiento a largo plazo puede realizarse a través de múltiples métodos, si bien el más utilizado en la literatura especializada es el procedimiento de regresión múltiple. Este método de estudio no tiene en cuenta la posible estacionariedad de los datos, por ello, si se realiza un tratamiento previo...

For decades, academics have studied the human resources of many different sectors with a wide range of approaches and methodologies. However, there is still room for analysis on educational mismatch, even more so in the hospitality industry after the COVID-19 pandemic standstill as it is a topic that has been somewhat relegated in recent times. Thu...

Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects on rural tourism remain un-derstudied. This paper aims to study the performance of rural accommodation businesses by assessing their environmental and health attitudes. Data on environmental and health measures and business performance perceptions were collected through a questionnaire completed by...

Cultural tourism is one of the most sustainable and fastest-growing types of tourism, and so has been widely studied. Despite countless works analyzing the possible factors that can condition the choice of the tourist destination, few have addressed how they may differ by sex and within cultural tourism, and they contradict. This paper analyzes thi...

Human capital in hospitality has been widely addressed by applying sophisticated econometric methods. However, for the Spanish case, there was a gap in the analyses as the crucial importance of collective agreements was undervalued. This paper redesigns the conceptualisation of the variables and applies a subsequent new classification to job positi...

Purpose The importance of workers in labour-intensive industries, such as tourism, is undeniable. In this sense, it has been investigated for decades from various methodological approaches. However, in the academic literature on tourism, the partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique has hardly been used. Design/method...

The circular economy is a top priority issue on the European green agenda. However, despite this topic having been studied for decades, there seem to be no clear ideas about how to carry out the strategies and actions that allow achieving the presupposed objectives. For this reason, this paper aims to offer a systematic literature review that might...

Background Childhood obesity presents alarming numbers in our country, being even higher in the population of immigrant origin. The main objective was to analyse the excess weight numbers both in native adolescents and in those children of immigrants and to determine the ethnic influence on lifestyle habits that could condition these differences in...

This paper aims to determine the effects of the economic crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic on the catering service subsector, as a specific part of the hospitality sector. Spanish National Statistics Institute data(N=33,376) are analysed through descriptive analysis and a binomial logistic regression. A steady drop in income is expected in...

Rural tourism is currently one of the most dynamic segments of tourism demand, and rural accommodation is one of the accommodation choices most in demand. Based on various documentary sources, the goal of this article was to analyse aspects related to the qualitative evolution of this activity that have led to the rapid growth of this type of accom...

Resumen Introducción La obesidad infantil ha alcanzado cifras alarmantes en nuestro país, siendo estas todavía más elevadas en los grupos de población de origen inmigrante. El principal objetivo fue analizar las cifras de exceso de peso, tanto en adolescentes nativos como en aquellos hijos de inmigrantes y determinar la influencia étnica sobre los...

In recent years, migratory phenomena have changed the composition of Spanish society. There are many studies that explore the healthy habits of young adolescents, but few focus on young immigrants. The purpose of this study is to examine the causal relationships between certain factors that influence the health of immigrant youth and sports. The sa...

Background: The alarming increase in childhood obesity is a global public health problem since it has significant health consequences. This cross-sectional study aimed to identify the potentially modifiable risk factors for developing excess weight and determine the importance of developing certain habits to prevent childhood overweight and obesit...

Knowing the behaviour of consumers is essential for all types of companies, including meat companies. For this purpose, academia is an ally of industry, and analysing scientific production seems crucial for conducting future research. Therefore, this study aimed to carry out an exhaustive review of the literature, relying on both descriptive and bi...

Statistical information strengthening in tourism sector is recommended by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Economic-statistical information is basic for carrying out effective quantitative economic analysis of tourism. Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is not a suitable source of information for econometric analysis. National Ac...

Background The number of overweight children is increasing at an alarming rate. This issue requires effective action plans, as childhood obesity has become a problem in which addressing environmental factors is decisive. In addition, significant differences have been shown in lifestyle habits that determine overweight based on sex. Therefore, this...

Introduction Spain is the European leader in overweight (O-W), partly to the social and environmental changes of the last decades. The objective of the work was to study the modifiable risk factors that lead to O-W. Material and methods A self-designed questionnaire with factors related to childhood obesity was produced, and was administered to th...

The role of the energy industry has always been central for one reason or another, being environmentalism the main motive in the last two decades. Therefore, attention and research have been directed in this sense. However, human resources—or human capital—have remained understudied, especially concerning the salaries received. Thus, this study is...

Introduction: Social and cultural changes are altering young people's habits. Some surveys measure such behaviors, but are hard to interpret. The objective of this study was to design and validate a homogeneous questionnaire to study habits among adolescents aged 12-14 years. Population and methods: Descriptive and crosssectional study to valida...

Ecotourism is one of the tourism variants with more annual growth. Motivation has become a fundamental criterion for travel behavior. Segmentation is used to identify the market niches of different tourism products and services. This study collects these three elements and is designed to examine demand segmentation and motivations in ecotourism. Th...

Background: Excess weight and obesity in childhood is directly related to comorbidities that can have serious conse-quences for health. This study set out to identify the main modifiable lifestyles that influence the development of excess weight and obesity in childhood. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out at seven secondary schools...

Cultural tourism is considered one of the most respectful segments both with the heritage preservation of the visited destination and from an environmental point of view. Not only because it is not a type of mass tourism, but also because these tourists want to know the heritage of the destination and its culture, gastronomy and way of life. The ma...

Introduction: In Spain, childhood obesity is worrying, and its development might be influenced by the family setting. The objectives were to determine the prevalence of excess weight among adolescents, evaluate family variables that could affect it, and determine parents' body perception. Population and methods: Cross-sectional study; students f...

After the opening policy in 1978, China’s tourism increasingly took relevance, up to become an important industry in the last two decades. Despite this, no analysis has been conducted at macroeconomic level to check both tourism industry interdependencies and wealth creation. To fill this gap, in this paper we elaborated an innovative conceptual mo...

The increase of environmental problems due to the tourist activity has given rise to conservation of environment in destinations. In this sense, regional, national, and international regulatory provisions have proliferated during the last years. This article analyses the perception in the society about this kind of distinguishing signs, for the spe...

Introduction: Spain is the European leader in over weight (O-W), partly to the social and environmental changes of the last decades. The objective of the work was to study the modifiable risk factors that lead to O-W. Material and methods: A self-designed questionnaire with factors related to childhood obesity was produced, and was administered...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is implemented unevenly in the Spanish tourism industry. The hotel infrastructure of the country is not an exception. This study analyses the environmental, social and economic dimensions of initiatives with respect to the hotel offer which consumers living in Spain appreciate and value more based on their gend...

La economía ecológica, centrada en la utilización, gestión y conservación sostenible de los recursos naturales, renovables o no, supone la inclusión de restricciones ecológicas dentro del marco económico general. Pero el tratamiento de los problemas ambientales presenta un marcado carácter social, y cuya solución implica modificaciones de la conduc...

The objective of this study was to use the perceptions of internet users to analyse the effect of the social, economic and environmental dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) implemented by hotel establishments in order to determine whether those dimensions are perceived by consumers. Our analysis was based on a sample, distributed by...

In recent years, the environmental protection has become of utmost importance, not only by governments and authorities responsible for its supervision but also citizens are increasingly behaving respectfully with the environment. Economic growth, especially in emerging economies, entails greater environmental impacts, while more developed countries...

In this paper, we analyse the effects of tourists' demand on the economic system of Tuscany using a multiplier model based on the (64x64) regional Social Accounting Matrix 2011. To this end, after identifying the exogenous and endogenous accounts (variables), we obtain endogenous account coefficients and impact multipliers. Evidence exists that tou...

Tourism is one of the economic driving forces of Spain: the consolidation of existing tourist destinations and new market niches encourage an upward trend of tourism. The economic impacts produced by tourism are one of the major concerns of the authorities; the question is whether it is possible to continue growing without compromising our environm...

In order to move towards a more environmentally oriented economy, society needs to be aware and able to recognize environmental friendly practices. Firms are increasingly relying on environmental scores ratings to make strategic decisions. In this context, understanding how day-to-day company´s decisions affect environment scores is crucial. This p...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is implemented unevenly in the Spanish tourism industry. The country’s hotel infrastructure is not an exception. Many researchers have focused on finding out to what extent the implementation of CSR is ideal from a hotel management perspective and what its effects and consequences are. To a lesser extent, this...

Innovation, sustainability and knowledge are outstanding concepts nowadays for firms to gain competitive advantage. There is a need to cross-seed the variables that take part in the companies’ decision-making process in order to identify how firms’ characteristics influence their innovative activities. In this paper, we focus on the sustainable inn...

Components related to sustainable development - such as environmental attitude, eco-innovation or environmental management - are considered key variables at the competitive level, which is why it has become urgent to study which factors motivate companies to move towards a more proactive environmental attitude. The identification of different group...

Energy demands are exponentially increasing and are expected to do so in the future. Thus, the challenge is to continue supplying energy to the society in an economically viable way while minimising the impact on the environment. This is one of the main concerns that societies are facing and it was the “leitmotif” of The Energy and Environment Know...

This paper examines the impact of diversity policies and women's participation in the workplace on the environmental scores of companies. Using data from 3895 firms present in the ASSET4 database during 2006-2010, we report on the impact of diversity policies, women's presence, and the major market location of companies on their environmental score...

The Impact of Social policies ́ Promotion and the Moderating Role of Location on firm ́s Environmental Scores The objective of present research was to analyze environmental scores in companies when adopting external social policies. We confirmed that location acts as a differentiating factor. We also analyzed the human rights, community and produc...

A lot of people think that the economic development of a country is associated with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but GDP does not consider aspects as important as the environmental performance of a country. Nowadays, environmental issues are one of the most important aspects of the long term development of a country and play an important role...

Eco-innovation is actually a fashionable topic, and several researchers are working on understanding the defining characteristics of firms that consider the environment as a priority when innovating. To date most of these studies have been carried out on manufacturing industries. This article investigates the similarities and differences among serv...

Traditional multivariate control charts consider the observations to be independent. In many industrial applications, however, a certain autocorrelation level can normally be observed. This can be due to the nature of the process itself (inertia in the process), or to the way in which the sample is obtained. In the latter case, the problem involved...

Eco-innovation is an actual topic as it links two key issues, innovation and sustainability. The environmental respect and innovation are important drivers of competitiveness. Firms are willing to know what to do to improve their eco-innovative capacity. The objective of this paper is to empirically determine what common characteristics have the mo...

Adolescence is a critical period for the acquisition of healthy habits. Every day there is more evidence that lifestyle has a deeply influence on the health of individuals. For this reason, the adoption of healthy habits or changing bad habits will provide beneficial effects on both health and peoples quality of life.Sport practice in adolescents i...

In this article, we analyze the impact on hotels of the ISO 14001 environmental certification system from the customers’ perspective. Based on a comparison of customer ratings of 6,850 hotels in Spain with and without ISO 14001 certification, overall guests rate the hotels with ISO 14001 certification higher than those without the certification. Th...

The achievement of competitive advantages by companies as a result of the enhancement of their environmental commitment is a vibrant research topic. This paper identifies groups of companies within the automotive industry that are driven by the same patterns in their environmental activity and clarifies the different approaches that act to encourag...

Assortment is one of the most important tools for retailers differentiating themselves from competitors, attracting customers into the store and increasing their sales. This paper analyzes the relationship between assortment size - in terms of number of Stock Keeping Units - and category sales level. In order to do this, a panel database containing...

Adolescence is a critical period for the acquisition of healthy habits. Every day there is more evidence that lifestyle has a deeply influence on the health of individuals. For this reason, the adoption of healthy habits or changing bad habits will provide beneficial effects on both health and people´s quality of life. Sport practice in adolescents...

Over the past years there has been a significant growth in corporate reporting of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors. This study assesses whether ESG ratings are related to firm performance. Through a multivariate analysis we have confirmed differences between the ESG scores used to evaluate environmental, social and corp...

Eco-innovation, understood as innovation clearly focused toward sustainable development, is a key element in the articulation of both public policies and actions at the corporate level as it is a determining differentiating aspect. The objective of this work is to analyze which variables determine that companies go one step further and consider the...

Despite several authors having studied the strategic approach to environmental orientation and, considering that environmental proactivity is emerging in business strategy, it still remains unclear which real actions influence a firm’s environmental orientation. An empirical analysis of a sample of 126 Spanish companies shows that firms’ actions ar...

Environmental protection is not at odds with the proper use of all the offered possibilities. Along these lines, the touristic products available to the consumer has increased exponentially over the last few years which has made it possible to convert territorial and patrimonial resources into significant elements of recreational use put into value...

The increased in the adoption of formally environmental certified practices through environmental management systems is a provable fact. Its implementation, which has a high cost for the companies, is expected to generate benefits, although the relation between the implementation of ISO 14001 and its influence on the improvement of economic indicat...

Several studies show the relationship between patient satisfaction and quality of health services and also between disabling conditions and healthcare access, but none sufficiently analyze the factors that contribute to satisfaction among patients with disabilities. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESES: The primary aim of this paper is to quantify the impact of so...

Environmental proactivity is actually a key aspect concerning business strategy and corporate positioning, and generates both tangible and intangible benefits. In this paper, the effect of agents' pressures, firms' objectives, firms' actions, and management concerns about the environmental proactive performances of companies are studied. An empiric...

Higher education is constantly changing and looking for innovative educational solutions in order to increase the level of the student´s knowledge and skills. As an important part of this set of educational policies, a new process is emerging for the ideation, planning and implementation of multidisciplinary case studies for students with the aim o...

In recent years, small businesses have created interest and research, because they represent the majority of the business fabric and account for over seventy per cent of jobs in developed countries. Governments of these countries share a general interest in knowing about Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME). Based on this premise, the approach...

Virtual teaching has become a common tool in our traditional universities. The new learning methodologies for the students, together with new pedagogical techniques in the context of the new European Space for Higher Education, have meant that both the Internet and the new information and communications technologies (ICT) have become options for te...

Concern for the environment is a constantly growing phenomenon. Awareness of most people and governments in the world with regard to this question has risen. Sometimes, this position is inversely proportional to economic growth, leading to a situation where a more environmental stance on the part of end users has often not been supported by more re...

Several research works focused on the evolution of the European Union Allowances (EUAs), traded on the EU ETS, and the Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), from a time series scheme. However, the question whether basic factors affect the EUAs and CERs prices remained partially unresolved; previous works showed that the price evolution is better e...

Cultural events and festivals have become a booming attraction, complementing the investment made in alternative commercial channels, because of the fidelity these periodic events generate among their public. In addition, holding them generates important economic effects in the economic activity of the region, both directly and indirectly in other...

The potential of environmental resources as tourist resources and the impact of tourism on these resources are an open research area and, because of its social and economic impact, arouse great interest among the social stakeholders. It is necessary to understand and measure their mutual influence in order to achieve positive mutual links between t...

In spite of the effort made in the last years, NOx is still one of the main pollution problems in large cities. This is why the literature related to predicting NOx levels is certainly extensive. However, most of this literature does not take into account the spatio-temporal dependencies of such NOx levels. As spatiotemporal dependencies are a core...

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Freshwater is a fundamental natural resource. It is essential for sustaining life, supports the development of ecosystems and economies and is also used as a recreational resource. Therefore, its appropriate management is critical if we want to guarantee the long-term sustainability of the supply. The aim of this paper is to analyze the main aspect...

The relationships between economic growth, environmental sustainability and energy are of great interest among researchers and policy makers. One of the theoretical conclusions that have received most attention is the convergence of the per capita carbon emission levels. But empirical results of theoretical growth models that include the environmen...

In recent years, a new line of research, named eco-efficiency theory has become an issue of considerable interest. The most important works in relation with this topic focus on the fact that enterprises can maximize their economic benefits and minimize the impact on the environment at the same time. Therefore, the recommendation is to choose the so...

Environmental matters are becoming a question of great importance and the increased attention to such matters has helped to make businesses, politicians and society in general consider the environment a matter of priority concern. Environmental concern, taken to mean an attitude favourable to the environment, has become widespread in different envi...

An increased level of environmental awareness by consumers has caused marketing to pay special attention to the deteriorating environment. This is a consequence of markets punishing those companies that fail to consider environmental concerns in their marketing efforts. However, how environmental proactivity is integrated into marketing strategy ha...

The university has to train students in skills which according to the demanding requirements of the job market and social environment are the basis of their competitiveness: specific skills or generic skills cutting across the different degrees. The convergence framework defined by the European Higher Education Area requires the incorporation of ed...

This document sets out a novel teaching methodology as used in subjects with statistical content, traditionally regarded by students as difficult. In a virtual learning environment, instructional techniques little used in mathematical courses were employed, such as the Jigsaw cooperative learning method, which had to be adapted to the peculiarities...

The Common Agricultural Policy (the CAP) is the most important common policy of the European Union, for which reason it traditionally monopolizes a large part of the European Union budget. Without doubt, the aids that farms receive from this policy are the pillar on which it sustains the battered agricultural sectors. Among CAP aid, direct payments...

Cultural tourism has traditionally been approached in terms of its appeal to visitors wishing to find out about or get involved in places or to extend their education or to enjoy historical buildings and heritage managed for tourism. This is tourism that has most encouraged activities to preserve the environment and historical/artistic heritage, ge...

In the last two decades it has growing the scientific interest in the socio-economic impacts of immigration on labour conditions of native workers. The studies show that these impacts are generally very weak and they are relatively concentrated in certain economic sectors. In the Spanish case, the studies concur with this assessment but found some...

Castilla-La Mancha University has decided to implement two tools: WebCT and Moodle, Virtual Campus has emerged: www.campusvirtual.ulcm.es. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of said tool as a primary mode of e-learning expansion in the university environment. It can be used to carry out standard educational university activities in accordance...

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the influence relationship between personal attitudes and several measures of social capital in some Central European Countries (CEC). Using the World Values Survey dataset, the model measures three main social capital dimensions (institutional trust, social participation and political participation...

The market for carbon dioxide rights emerged as one of the tools applicable to the implementation of the measures adopted by the Kyoto Protocol to combat climate change. In this paper we analyze the case of Spain, because their peculiar administrative division into seventeen Autonomous Communities, it is relevant to a detailed study of emissions an...

Public initiatives to assist the sustainable development of the rural environment are of great significance in the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha, which is faced with important socio-economic changes that will undoubtedly condition the future of the rural environment. In these latter fields, the experience acquired in the Rural Innovation Pro...

As many surveys stated, companies are investing in better pricing processes, tools and capabilities. Among these companies, 42% consider that capturing the full value of products and services is one of the top challenges related to price setting and optimization. In addition, many improvements have been made recently in the way companies set an opt...

The way regional economies change is an increasingly evident concern in developed economies. To meet this need for quantitative analysis of the economic situation, the starting point is analysis of a series of simple indicators in order to learn about the regional economies. But this provides a view of the particular sector described by the indicat...

The definition of the word disability is controversial, due to his complexity and multidimensionality. The successive disability models and their empirical measurement in the diverse health national surveys vary greatly. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (World Health Organization, 2001), known as the ICF, sees...

Ingrafica, International Festival of Contemporary Engraving City of Cuenca, is an international platform to support the creation, promotion and dissemination of contemporary printmaking and other forms of multiple art. Its purpose is to reflect on the engraving as an artistic discipline of XXI century, acting as a meeting point and consultation bet...

The introduction of new undergraduate degrees adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires a coordinated effort by teachers, because the different subjects are based on a new methodology of teaching and learning. The Social Sciences School of Cuenca offers degrees in Business Administration, Law and Labor Sciences. The progressive...

In recent decades, social policies have advanced greatly in developed countries, especially with regard to disabilities. This has led to greater resources for these social policies, especially those related to health care. However, people with disabilities have different needs, which are not always reflected in health service care. So, using data o...

The city tourism has become a subject of growing interest in tourism research, in a dynamic sector and with a particularly complex behaviour. In this scenario, the management of available information turns out to be difficult. Until now, specialized literature in tourism has been focused on general analysis, but down to a higher level of disaggrega...

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the influence relationship between personal attitudes and several measures of social capital in some Central European Countries (CEC). Using the World Values Survey dataset, the model measures three main social capital dimensions (institutional trust, social participation and political participation...

The process through which people make judgments and choices is complex and is influenced by a variety of factors. In this respect, factors such as culture or habits affect many aspects of consumer behavior such as the structure of consumption, individual decision-making and communication about the product. Cultural issues are relevant to consumers...