SPAIN: Barcelona
Research
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, which is named after the first scholar to codify the Catalan language, is a young university with about 7,000 students. The Inequality program’s affiliates are the Department of Political and Social Sciences and the Department of Economics and Business. The Department of Political and Social Sciences consists of a unit on Political Science and Administration, and a unit on Sociology. The Department of Economics and Business specializes in theory, experimental economics, econometrics, economic history, and health economics.
Faculty research
Economics
Research areas: labor and gender economic history; human capital formation
Research areas: single mothers, family structures and work patterns
Research areas: Gender-based unemployment differences in the OECD
Research areas: incentives to retire and labor market participation
Research areas: monetary theory and history; financial history and health economics
Research areas: transmission of economic inequality across generations; impact of inequality in parental income on transfer through bequests; household borrowing in response to interest rates; job attributes and wage differentials; project on fertility and insecure labor markets (with Gösta Esping-Andersen)
Political and Social Sciences
Research areas: comparative politics with special emphasis on the role of interest groups in the political processes of Western Europe and Latin America; the interaction between citizens and voluntary associations
Research areas: documentary information systems; online research; digital publications and journalistic documentation in the media
Research areas: comparative public policies; inequality, employment and the labor market; fertility declines in Southern Europe; life course and inequality; new biographical patterns; intergenerational inheritance and social mobility
Research areas: theory and history of political and social thought; relationships between "public" and "private" spheres in contemporary society; sociology of education and culture: Spanish education reforms in the mid 1980’s; relationship between two-tiered education system and immigration
Research areas: local labor markets; small businesses and the informal economy; labor relations in the public sector in Spain; women and work
Research areas: theories of collective action; public institutions and policies; trade unions and labor relations starting in the late 1980’s; role of unions in transformation from authoritarianism to democracy; telecommunication policies in Europe; interview-based research, event history analysis
Research areas: human resources management and quality production in public services; non-governmental organizations and their impact on social policy; women and the times of the city; women and reproductive health
Research areas: political science and history: nationalism (comparative analysis of national movements, theories of nationalism); European integration (the role of the regions); contemporary Catalan history (social movements); Spanish agrarian history (Catalan wine-making)
Research areas: fertility project; family formation; diffusion models
Research areas: welfare states and health and social policies
Research areas: clinical medicine and applications of psychoanalysis; investigation of groups in psychoanalytical social psychology; psychoanalytical social psychology of organizations and work; mental health, illness and healthcare
Research areas: friendship and community in the modern world; the welfare state and civil society
Research areas: labor relations; the sociology of work; trade unionism and new forms of work organization
Research areas: political behavior; political culture and public opinion; electoral behavior; political parties; federalism
Research areas: work atmosphere and business culture; motivation of groups; application of the theory of complexity: chaos, self-organization, fractals in the study of groups, organizations and institutions; mental health, illness and healthcare intervention
Research areas: parliamentary law; institutional organization of states; territorial organization of the state; comparative political systems
Research areas: state and education; comparative educational policy in EU countries; educational and social policy in the EU; methodology of comparative research
Research areas: administrative science and theory of organization applied to public administration; administrative structures and human resources of public administrations; externalization of the public sector; new public management
Research areas: theories of democracy; federalism and multi-nationality; multiculturalism; political liberalism and social democracy after the second world war; political philosophy
Research areas: systems for improving public management; introduction of marketing mechanisms in the administration; analysis of public policy: telecommunications policy in Spain
Research areas: inequalities and comparative social policy; state-civil society interrelations in the sphere of the welfare state; third-sector development and partnership with public sector; cross-country comparison of income inequality among retired people; comparison of elder-care regimes and results on women’s employment patterns; project on child poverty with Gösta Esping-Andersen: impact of mothers’ employment on child poverty
Research areas: sociology and environmental policy and management, specifically environmental action and participation; integrated environmental assessment (IEA); climatic change; environmental communication and information; corporate environmental management; social methodologies applicable to environmental research; environmental movements; environmental perception and public opinion; environmental risk and studies in sustainability
Research areas: political legitimacy, discontent in the new democracies: a model of attitudinal change; citizen involvement in democracy; structural opportunities for participation; political participation and inequality; coordinates the Spanish version of the European Social Survey
Research areas: political behavior; quantitative and qualitative techniques of political analysis
Research areas: immigration; European citizenry
Datasets
Visit the library’s website for information on statistical databases available at UPF.
Inequality Fellows are advised to email UPF’s reference librarians Xavier Martinez (Sociology) at xavier.martinez@upf.edu and Coro Pozuelo (Polititical Sciene) at coro.pozuelo@upf.es before their research placement to inquire what datasets are available to answer their research questions.
Datasets that might be of interest for the study of social inequality in Spain (information provided by Xavier Martinez):
> INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica) data, such as the EPA, the Spanish Labor Survey
> CIS (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas) data
> Data by other agencies, such as the Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales
> Eurostat data, especially on Population and Social Conditions.
Students who want to use the surveys of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), the main producer of surveys in Spain, will need to email Professor Mariano Torcal at mariano.torcal@upf.edu or Professor Sebastian Sarasa at sebastia.sarasa@cpis.upf.esto request access.
If students want to use the European Household Panel, they should email librarians about when they will need the data, so they will get a user card in time.
Library access
Inequality Fellows need to contact Maite Viudes at maite.viudes@upf.edu at UPF’s International Relations unit about a student id card, which will give them access to the library.
Practical information
Accommodation
The University of Pompeu Fabra’s Student Mobility and Reception Office (OMA) at oma@upf.edu can help Inequality Fellows find housing, but they will need a note from the Inequality program’s main Pompeu Fabra contact confirming proof of acceptance at UPF.
Sant Jordi Pisos Universitaris real estate agency
Contact: Gemma Rovira Pujades.
Phone: + 34 93 2541280.
Fax: + 34 93 418 67 82
email: santjordi@adam.es
“This accommodation system combines the convenience of a university hall of residence with the cozy atmosphere of one’s own flat. The flats are near the universities and have home meal delivery and daily cleaning services.” (Source: Welcome to Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
“Sant Jordi is a company that offers rooms for rent in Barcelona. These flats are shared and they are for students in general for the whole year (University students, Erasmus students,…) and for anyone who is interested in staying in Barcelona during summer time. All flats have easy access to public transportation which makes them be very well situated and connected to any place in the city.
Sant Jordi has 56 flats giving lodging to 260 tenants. The flats have 3, 4 or 5 single or double bedrooms with a maximum of 2 people per bedroom. All flats are refurbished and fully furnished and have all the basic appliances such as fridge, microwave, TV, iron and washing machine. Moreover, all these flats are equipped with all the necessary tools to cook and with all those essentials for a person to feel at home as much as possible.
Apart from that, the company has a person responsible for every flat (tutor/advisor) who periodically checks the flats and is constantly in contact with the tenants. The company also provides a maintenance service for any repairs necessary and a telephone number available 24 hours.”
(Source: Sant Jordi’s Magazine “Lodging Service in Barcelona”)
For lodging in a shared apartment, the length of contract can be arranged by months, weeks, or days. In 2004, a single room cost 275 euros plus 25 euros per month for utilities; a double room cost 195 euros plus 25 euros for utilities. During the year, students pay a deposit of 300 euros, which they will get back at the end of their contract. During the summer, the deposit is 200 euros. There is also an inscription fee of 125 euros during the year and 45 euros during the summer.
Barcelona Housing Service for Students
“This is an accommodation service run jointly by all the universities in the Barcelona area. It offers several options: flat-sharing, rooms in shared flats and “bridging” (temporary) accommodation” (Source: Welcome to Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Residence Hall “La Ciutadella”
Residencia Universitaria La Ciutadella (see photo tour) is located one block from Pompeu Fabra at Pg. Pujades 33-37. “Each apartment has its own bathroom. Fully equipped kitchen, telephone and free Internet connection, furniture and access to the hall’s communal services and amenities. There is a very limited number of places, so preference is given to those wishing to stay for a full year.” (Source: Welcome to Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The room rental period during the academic year is from September 15 to June 30, but there may also be space if students only come for one semester. The cost of a single room per academic year (9 month-period) was 300 euros per month in 2004, plus utilities. During the summer of 2004, a single room cost 600 euros per month.
Contact: Monica Maeso
Phone: + 34 93 394 32 00
email: ciutadella@resa.es
For reservations for the period July 1 – August 31, call + 34 93 3943500 or email resa@resa.es by April/May.
Health insurance
The US State Department provides extensive information on health insurance for Americans traveling abroad.
Office space and computer access
Since Inequality Fellows will not have access to office space at Pompeu Fabra, they will need to bring their own laptop so they can work in the library.
Timing
UPF’s first term starts at the end of September and ends at the beginning of January. The second term runs from the beginning of January to mid-March, and the third term from mid-April to the end of June.
Transportation
A monthly metro and bus pass for Barcelona, called “T-Mes,” cost 37.65 euros in 2004. A 10-ride pass was 5.8 euros. Renfe provides information on rail services in Spain. For a list of low-cost airlines operating in Europe, visit http://www.discountairfares.com/lcosteur.htm. To print out a location on a map, go to http://www.mappy.com./
Visa information
US citizens staying in Spain as tourists for less than 90 days do not need a visa to enter the country. For the latest visa-related information, visit the websites of the US State Department and the Spanish Embassy in Washington, DC.
(Source: Katherine Newman and Katrin Križ’ site visit in spring 2004)
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