Immigrant integration in western societies can be focused from several legal-political doctrines, whose adoptions will imply rights to be recognized, as well as legal treatment for cultural differences potentially clashing core values in destination societies. In European policy and in European...

During the 2000s, recurrent food price shocks due to volatility in international markets and extreme weather events affected consumption and nutritional patterns of Mexican urban households. This research quantifies the impacts of food price shocks on the purchase of nutrients and on the weight...

El objetivo de este trabajo es el de cuantificar el grado de desprotección al que se ven sometidos los individuos en los países de la OCDE durante el año 2003, mediante el cálculo de un Índice de Vulnerabilidad Social. La estimación de dicho índice se ha llevado a cabo a partir de la suma...

The optimal flat-rate fiscal structure is calculated in a two-sector endogenous growth model of the Mexican economy. Government expenditures would be financed by an income tax rate. If capital and labor income can be taxed at distinct rates, the optimal tax rate on wages would be zero. Holding...