Toward a division of metropolitan labour: An empirical analysis of the metropolitan area of Barcelona

The economic globalization, firm?s internationalization and the territorial decentralization of the productive process to increase competitivity via prices is producing not only a new process of international labor division between developed countries that overcome the previous divisions between North and South if not also a division of employment inside big metropolitan areas in developed countries. A divisor process of employment that we can call ?metropolitan division of labor?. This metropolitan regions, old nucleus of regional development it transforms in a complex model which interrelations are necessary analyze to develop, from the public territorial institutions, the adequate strategies. The aim of this paper is analyze the model of metropolitan division of labor in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.

The "Rabassa Morta" in Catalan viticulture: the rise and decline of a long-term sharecropping contract, 1670s-1920s

For long periods, and in line with recent theoretical literature, the rabassa morta sharecropping contract successfully reduced problems of moral hazard and opportunistic behavior, and provided incentives for sharecroppers to respond to market opportunities. However, from the late nineteenth century, technical change, rising wages, and weak wine prices all increased the incentives for postcontractual opportunistic behavior on the part of the sharecropper, leading to conflicts and loss of trust between the principal and agent. Under these conditions, contemporaries often considered the contract synonymous with "exploitation" and "impoverishment," terms frequently found in the more traditional literature on sharecropping.

Explaining contract choice : vertical co-ordination, sharecropping, and wine, France 1850-1950.

Recent literature on sharecropping has emphasized its importance in reducing problems associated with moral hazard in cultivation (Tuscany), or in providing an important ‘rung’ on the farm ladder (US South). Yet despite these and other important features, sharecropping is surprisingly absent in many, if not most other settings. Using case studies associated with French wine production, this paper argues that a number of factors have often been overlooked in the literature: 1) the need for landowners to be able to offer farms that were both sufficiently large to employ full time the sharecropper’s family, and allowed them to produce a variety of products to minimize risk; 2) measurement problems associated with the division of the harvest, especially when quality was an important factor in determining farm price; 3) and the nature of vertical co-operation and integration associated with the production and marketing arrangements of individual crops explains that landowners were not indifferent to receiving payment in cash or kind, and this affected contract choice. This paper incorporates these ideas to explain not just the presence and absence of sharecropping in different geographical localities, but also the wide variety of different forms of the contract that existed in Europe.Sharecropping; French agriculture; Wine history;

Spanish housing markets during the first phase of the rural-urban transition process

This paper discusses how Spain’s housing markets reacted to the far-reaching changes that affected the demand for dwellings during the first phase of the rural-urban transition process. To this end, we construct a new hedonic index of real housing prices and assemble a cross-regional panel dataset of price fundamentals. The results of our econometric analysis suggest that housing markets did not face supply constraints, responded swiftly to the growing demand for accommodation and were efficient. In light of this new evidence, we conclude that housing markets were not a burden for Spanish economic development and that Spain’s institutional and regulatory frameworks were suitable for the housing needs at the time.Hedonic prices, Demand and supply of housing, Regulation in housing markets

Toward a division of metropolitan labour: An empirical analysis of the metropolitan area of Barcelona

The economic globalization, firm?s internationalization and the territorial decentralization of the productive process to increase competitivity via prices is producing not only a new process of international labor division between developed countries that overcome the previous divisions between North and South if not also a division of employment inside big metropolitan areas in developed countries. A divisor process of employment that we can call ?metropolitan division of labor?. This metropolitan regions, old nucleus of regional development it transforms in a complex model which interrelations are necessary analyze to develop, from the public territorial institutions, the adequate strategies. The aim of this paper is analyze the model of metropolitan division of labor in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona

Evolución urbana y demográfica de la ciudad de Mérida

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