3. Social structure, social change, and social policy

 

3.1. Family studies

 

The family and the welfare system in Spain. A study on family contributions to solving the problems of unemployment, old age, education and health (sponsor, Argentaria Foundation) (1997).

Familia y sistema de bienestar

 

A report on the family in Spain: A study of the future prospects of the family in Spain (sponsor, Argentaria Foundation) (2000).

La familia española en el año 2000

 

Family’s attitudes to secondary education in Spain: A study of the evolution of public debate on secondary education followed by the analysis of the results of a national survey on family’s attitudes (sponsor, La Caixa Foundation) (2000).

La familia española ante la educación de sus hijos

 

3.2. Gender and generational studies

 

Old people and women faced with the future.

"Ancianos y mujeres ante el futuro"

 

Old people as a balanced voice of the future.  

"Los mayores como una voz equilibrada del futuro"

 

The generation of the transition: between work and retirement (sponsor, La Caixa Foundation).

La generación de la transición: entre el trabajo y la jubilación

 

Adolescents and the new technologies of information and communication.

La adolescencia, sus vulnerabilidades y las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación

 

3.3. Migration Studies

 

Attitudes of the Spanish public to immigrants: A secondary analysis of opinion surveys and a study of the public debate on immigration in Spain (sponsor, La Caixa Foundation) (2001).

España ante la inmigración

 

Muslim immigrants in Europe: Turks in Germany, Algerians in France and Moroccans in Spain: see supra European studies (Sponsor, La Caixa Foundation) (2003).

La inmigración musulmana en Europa

 

Comments on the future proceedings on immigration in Madrid.

"Observaciones acerca de un plan de actuación sobre la inmigración en la Comunidad de Madrid"

3.4. Rural and peasant studies

Rural and Peasant Studies: Processes of adaptation to changes by farmers and villagers in Castile: A historical overview, and an analysis of economic, political and cultural changes that affect the agricultural profession, local politics and the rural environment, based on field work.

"Aguante y elasticidad: observaciones sobre la capacidad de adaptación de los campesinos castellanos de este final de siglo"

"Transformaciones de una tradición: campesinos y agricultura en Castilla entre mediados del siglo XVI y mediados del siglo XX"

"Agricultura y vida rural"

3.5. Social policy (pensions, health policy)

 

The public's attitudes to pension policies: A survey in collaboration with a network of international research coordinated by Prof. Tito Boeri, of the Università Bocconi, Milan (2000).

 

The future of the pensions in Spain: with Prof. José A. Herce, FEDEA Foundation (1996).

La reforma del sistema público de pensiones

 

Attitudes of the Spanish public to the pensions system: A report to the Ministry of Economy, based on an opinion survey of a national sample of the adult population (1997).

La opinión pública ante el sistema de pensiones

"El pacto de Toledo y la política de pensiones"

"Sistema de bienestar, familia y una estrategia liberal-comunitaria"

 

On health policy: Advisory work at the National Council on Health Policy (since 1996).