Mihaela Vancea

University of Barcelona | UB · Departament of Research Methods and Diagnostic in Education

This chapter focuses on how intergenerational transmission of family work values impacts human capital investment and development across three generations in ten Spanish families. Face to face interviews were conducted with 30 participants from three family generations. Families were selected and stratified by the age (18–35 years), gender (e.g. ma...

Although public debates emphasize a weakening of work values and ethics over the last few decades, little attention has been paid to the transmission of work values between parents and children. It is still unclear what kind of parental behavior is critical and if culture influences the intergenerational transmission of work values. Based on social...

Aims: There is evidence that young people are less satisfied with their lives when they are unemployed or working in precarious conditions. This study aims to shed light on how the life satisfaction of unemployed and precariously employed young people varies across welfare states with different labour market policies and levels of social protectio...

The aim of this study is to explore individual-level and family background determinants of young adults’ unemployment. Compared to previous studies, we focus on extended adulthood by including a broader age range in the sample of young adults (18-35 years), and on less explored individual predictors. A harmonized data set, based on representative c...

The school-to-work transition in Spain has become much more difficult and extended than before, with many young people today experiencing long periods of temporary employment, unemployment or inactivity. This article investigates the main socio-demographic characteristics of Spanish young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs). It...

After online first publication of the article, it was noticed that the family name of author Panos Tsakloglou was erroneously misspelt as Tsakoglou.

Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking these official statistics as a starting point, the collaborative research project “Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency...

Recientemente, han surgido un número creciente de proyectos energéticos comunitarios, que reflejan diversas configuraciones socio-técnicas en el sector energético. Este artículo se basa en un estudio empírico que examina diferentes tipos de proyectos energéticos comunitarios como las cooperativas energéticas, las empresas de servicios públicos y ot...

This article aims to addresses two fundamental questions: to what extent immigrant associations engage in political transnationalism; and what are the main determinants of their transnational political activism. The study compares the degree of political transnationalism of 24 immigrant associations in Barcelona, by exploring the influence of meso-...

Resumen El objetivo de este artículo es explorar en qué medida las asociaciones de inmigrantes se im-plican en el transnacionalismo político y qué determina las diferencias en su implicación. El estudio compara los niveles de transnacionalismo político de 24 asociaciones de inmigrantes en Barcelona, indagando cómo influyen variables de nivel meso y...

The article explores the relationship between unemployment and precarious employment, and young people’s entrepreneurial intentions in Spain. We focus on the effects of employment conditions and experience on young people’s intentions to start their own business or become selfemployed. The role of socio-demographic characteristics and behavioral fa...

In many European countries, renewable energy has evolved through decentralised and small-scale forms of organisation. These different initiatives are often denominated as community energy in both research and practice. By examining community energy initiatives through a social entrepreneurship lens, we develop an integrated approach for the analysi...

Background: The impact of unemployment and precarious employment on the health of young people is not well understood. However, according to social causation, higher socio-economic positions and thus better working conditions are beneficial to health in general. We tried to synthesize the results of studies that test this hypothesis in the case of...

Population ageing is one of the major social and economic challenges of our contemporary societies. With the advent of the information society, new research and technological developments have been promoted in the field of assistive technologies and information and communication technologies of benefit to elderly people. This article examines the p...

This article critically evaluates the Royal Decree-Law 16/2012, which regulates migrants’ access to public healthcare services in Spain. In particular, it examines the political rationale behind the restriction of migrants’ access to primary and specialised healthcare services. We depart from the right to health as it is defined in the Spanish and...

Europe seems to be experiencing a significant mismatch between the skills employers require from graduates, and the skills students acquire in higher education institutions. There are 5.7 million unemployed young people in Europe, including many higher education graduates,1 at the same time as one third of employers cannot find employees with the r...

p>Mobility has impact on the career and the personal. Most importantly, personality traits such as confidence or tolerance are not only predictors for studying abroad but also relevant for employability. These are some results of one of the largest studies ever conducted on Erasmus: the Erasmus Impact study (EIS).</p

This article uses data from 35 semi-structured interviews of migrant women from three different ethnic backgrounds living in Catalonia to explore the use of ICTs in their economic integration. The results show that the three groups of migrant women studied perceive ICTs as important instruments of economic integration, though they tend to use them...

Both the sociology of migration and the academic literature on network society tend to highlight the penetration of new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the migrant population. While there have been significant contributions to this area of knowledge from qualitative studies, very few quantitative studies examine the relationship...

Both the sociology of migration and the academic literature on network society tend to highlight the penetration of new information and communication technologies (ict) in the migrant population. While there have been significant contributions to this area of knowledge from qualitative studies, very few quantitative studies examine the relationship...

The rapid dissemination of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in contemporary societies has given rise to a new technological, geographical, and social (TGS) space that defines the e-migrant. This analytical perspective allows us to address the relationship between mobile phone use and the maintenance of family relationships from a d...

Despite the large number of studies in the past two decades about the basic income proposal, its relationship to the process of international migration has not yet been comprehensively addressed. In this article, we explore the feasibility of implementing a basic income that would include, in addition to citizens, those immigrants with more than on...

In the last two decades, there has been a significant number of studies on the proposal of a basic income, but its relationship with the process of contemporary international migration has not been clearly and exhaustively analysed until now. In this article, the authors explore the viability of implementing a basic income of citizenship that could...

Reseña de la obra de Charles C. Ragin aparecida en 1989, The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 185 p. Reseña de la obra de Charles C. Ragin aparecida en 2000, Fuzzy-Set Social Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 352 p.

Even though there are many recent studies on unconditional and universal minimum income schemes, they have not addressed the very pertinent process of international migration. The aim of this paper is to examine the normative justification of a Basic Income for immigrants as entitled members of a political community. Hence, this study explores both...