Du sollst dir kein Bildnis machen: la atribución de imágenes y su pernicioso efecto sobre la identidad de los personajes de Max Frisch

Max Frisch is not just one of the major novelists and playwrights of Swiss Contemporary Literature. His insight of human beings, and of their passions and worries, was also exceptional. That is where the universality and timeless quality of his works and literary characters stands. His own vision of human kind, though, was not an optimistic one. In his view, people live in a lonely fight to get rid of the images that other human beings, or their own selves, cast upon their identites. Because of this attribution of images, many of his characters suffer from profound identity crisis, or either drive themselves towards their own death. These are the themes, together with the theoretical analysis of the so called «Bildnistheorie», that define the contents of this article

Salud pública y multiculturalidad: inmunización poblacional y seguridad alimenticia

En sociedades multiculturales caracterizadas por una significativa pluralidad de grupos religiosos, el ejercicio de la libertad religiosa puede entrar en colisión con las normas que pretenden garantizar y proteger la salud pública. Dos ámbitos resultan especialmente relevantes en esta temática. En primer lugar, la inmunización de la población y las objeciones de conciencia a la vacunación que se suscitan por parte de determinados colectivos religiosos. Y, en segundo lugar, la confrontación de determinadas prescripciones alimenticias religiosas con las normas que pretenden garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y el bienestar animal. El estudio de los problemas y desafíos que suscitan ambos temas constituye el objeto de este trabajoIn multicultural societies characterized by a religious plurality, the exercise of religious freedom may clash with the rules intended to ensure and protect public health. Two subjects are particularly relevant in this area: first, the immunization of the population and conscientious objection to vaccination in certain religious groups; and secondly, the confrontation of certain religious dietary requirements with the rules to ensure food safety and animal welfare. The study of the problems and challenges raised by these two subjects is the main object of this pape

The use of permanent contracts across Spanish regions: Do regional wage subsidies work?

This paper evaluates the effect of regional wage subsidies to foster permanent employment for a sample of temporary and unemployed Spanish workers. We study the transition into permanent employment using a new dataset based on administrative Social Security registers named “La Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales”, which is used for the first time to carry out policy evaluation exercises in the Spanish labor market.Difference-in-differences, Evaluation Analysis, Wage Subsidies, Competing risk