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Jerònia Pons-Pons

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ID1626418
NAMEJerònia Pons-Pons
GIVEN NAMESJerònia
FAMILY NAMEPons-Pons
SIGNATUREPONS-PONS J
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad de Sevilla
ORCID0000-0003-0491-7038
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS45
AUTHOR COUNT23
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4
  • El papel familiar y económico de las judeoconversas ante la represión de la Inquisición: Mallorca 1677-1691

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Juan Carpio Elías•ARTICLE•Studia Historica Historia Moderna•2026•References: 23

    Entre 1677 y 1691 el Tribunal de la Inquisición de Mallorca llevó a cabo una amplia represión con más de 250 casos sobre la población juedeoconversa. La extensión y riqueza de la documentación económica generada, conservada en el Archivo del Reino de Mallorca y del Archivo Histórico Nacional, permite estudiar el impacto de los procesos inquisitoriales. Algo más de la mitad de las sentencias concentradas en los autos de fe de 1679 y 1691 afectaron…

  • Formación histórica de hospitales independientes sevillanos durante el siglo XX y su incorporación a los grandes grupos hospitalarios en el siglo XXI

    Open Access•E García Cruz, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Ayer Revista de Historia…•2025

    A partir de la primera mitad del siglo XX, muchos médicos especialistas crearon pequeñas clínicas y hospitales en las principales ciudades españolas, entre ellas Sevilla, para atender la demanda de las clases adineradas. El objetivo del trabajo es el estudio del proceso mediante el cual estas pequeñas empresas hospitalarias independientes van creciendo hasta que a finales del siglo XX son absorbidas por grandes grupos hospitalarios en manos del c…

  • The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century

    Juan Carpio Elías, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History•2024•Cited by: 1

    The persecution of ethnic or religious minorities has been a longstanding object of historiographical analysis. One widely disseminated thesis affirms that elites collaborate economically with minorities, but when conflict or crisis erupts the latter are used as a scapegoat to satisfy the masses. In Majorca, by negotiating with the nobility and the clergy, Majorcan converts (Xuetes) had attained an important position in trade and credit by the la…

  • The emergence of financial capital in the health insurance business in Europe: The case of Spain in the last fifty years

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Revista de Historia Económica /…•2024•References: 30

    Sickness insurance companies were developed in Spain by doctors and healthcare professionals, remaining outside the interests of general insurance companies. Their management was hardly professional, with limited actuarial techniques and they only accounted for a small percentage of total insurance business premiums. From the 1970s onwards, various factors changed this situation, driving processes of concentration, with numerous takeovers and mer…

  • Distribution channels and growth strategies in Spanish insurance: From networks of agents to branch offices (1870–1940)

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Business History•2024•References: 20

    This article analyses the factors that determined the choice of distribution channel within the Spanish insurance industry and its relation with growth strategies performed by firms. To achieve this goal, we have gone through documentary sources from the main companies to examine the relationships between companies and agents and their costs, namely: the design of agency contracts, the different procedures on the selection of agents, and the guid…

  • Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Dolores Ruiz-Berdún et al.•ARTICLE•Women s History Review•2024

    Over the last century, Western countries have undergone a process of medicalisation and hospitalisation of childbirth. This process led to the subordination of midwives to doctors’ authority and made the hospital the main focus of childbirth care, which entailed a break with the traditional formula. This article analyses the case of Spain, a country of special interest due to the convergence of three elements: a belated passage of public health i…

  • Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990)

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This article discusses the role of employers and their organizations in promoting or hindering social insurance schemes and, ultimately, the welfare state. Unlike most studies that center on countries in periods of democracy, this research focuses on the role of employers, and specifically employers’ mutuals, in the development of the industrial accident scheme during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. The institutional elimination of the class st…

  • El papel de hospitales municipales y provinciales en España desde una perspectiva histórica

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Dynamis•2021

    Los hospitales municipales y provinciales representaron un papel clave en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España hasta la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Su papel estratégico en la beneficencia del siglo XIX para la cobertura de los pobres se modificó con el avance y la configuración del hospital moderno ubicado en nuevos edificios y técnicas de gestión, con una estructura interna jerarquizada y avances en ámbito diagnóstico-te…

  • Los factores condicionantes en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Dynamis•2021

    Este dossier reúne investigaciones que analizan algunos factores históricos condicionantes en el origen y evolución del sistema hospitalario público y privado en España. Se trata de un tema de plena actualidad en los ámbitos académicos internacionales en un contexto de pandemia provocada por el COVID-19, donde el interés por la salud pública y las infraestructuras hospitalarias ha cobrado un nuevo interés, también social. Por tanto, resulta un bu…

  • Evolución de la gestión del riesgo en el sector agrario español: De la economía preindustrial a los seguros

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Juan Carpio Elías•ARTICLE•Historia Agraria Revista de…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    From a long-term perspective (Early Modern Age until the Spanish Civil War), we analyse how the rural world confronted contingent risks that could cause serious material losses. For the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, our research relied on notarial sources based on leases. For the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we used a variety of sources, such as company statutes and balance sheets, trade journals, the Gaceta de Madrid and official ins…

  • For the workers but without the workers’: Industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Labor History•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical theses, this paper analyses the historical roots of this situation, focusing on the institutions that historically managed industrial accident insurance coverage, especially during the first decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939–1966). This study examines…

  • The long shadow of charity in the Spanish hospital system, c. 1870–1942

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History•2019

    In the late nineteenth century, in most industrialized countries, the coverage of social risks in general and the risk of sickness in particular came from four basic sectors with different weighting according to country: the state, the market, the traditional family network and solidarity among workers. Historians have shown that, across time, hospital systems tended to be created in developed countries where at least one of these public or priva…

  • The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez•ARTICLE•Business History•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 20

    The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance business in developed countries. However, much remains to investigate about the origin and evolution of the companies in this sector. This article analyses the genesis, growth and organisational changes of health insurance companies in Spain from the…

  • Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: The historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942-86

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•The Economic History Review•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 24

    Throughout history, healthcare, along with diet, has been an essential component of life and a country's welfare. In particular, a country's hospital system is a key indicator for analysing the level of welfare achieved by health coverage. From an economic history perspective, the study of hospital systems is relevant since they stem from public and private investment and produce positive externalities by creating employment and stimulating other…

  • El debate en torno al seguro de salud público y privado en España: Desde la transición política a la Ley General de Sanidad (1975-1986)

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Historia y Política Ideas…•2018

    This paper aims to analyze how the foundations of the current Spanish health model were developed and debated in Parliament from the beginning of the democratic transition until the approval of the General Health Law in 1986. During this period there was an important political debate on the model of the health system in Spain that orbited around the role that the State should represent in the management, financing and provision of services and it…

  • Risk management and reinsurance strategies in the Spanish insurance market (1880–1940)

    Pablo Gutiérrez González, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Business History•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    Reinsurance allows insurance companies to diversify their risks. However, from this original role, insurance companies have developed various reinsurance strategies in order to expand their market share. From the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1940s, Spanish insurance companies used reinsurance in a largely unregulated context. This article analyses the reinsurance practices and their adaptation to the singularities of the Spanish …

  • The Actuarial Practices of British Insurance Companies in Peripheral Markets: The Case of Spain (1890–1936)

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    The backwardness of actuarial techniques in Spain and the lack of Spanish mortality tables had a bearing on the development of life insurance in Spain. The actuaries of the domestic and foreign companies operating in this country used other countries’ mortality tables, corrected upwards, to draw up their policies. With actuarial reports from the Gresham Life Assurance Society, established in Spain in the 1890s, the difficulties actuaries had to c…

  • The insurance market in Spain: From fragmentation to concentration (1880-2010)

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•Entreprises et histoire•2014

    La modernisation du marché espagnol de l’assurance a commencé vers 1870, au cours de la première mondialisation, lorsque les premières multinationales françaises, britanniques, américaines et allemandes se sont implantées dans le pays. En outre, plusieurs compagnies nationales se sont constituées à partir de la fusion de firmes cherchant à être compétitives sur un marché à croissance lente. C’est ainsi que se sont créées les deux compagnies qui o…

  • The Introduction of Sickness Insurance in Spain in the First Decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1962)

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History of Medicine•2012•Cited by: 6

    [Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care\n\t\t\t\t provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed\n\t\t\t\t and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This\n\t\t\t\t article highlights how the dictatorship accelerated its implementation for political\n\t\t\t\t motives and this resulted in a failure of the system due to the lack of …

  • Labour repression and social justice in Franco's Spain: The political objectives of compulsory sickness insurance, 1942–1957

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Labor History•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    [Abstract:]This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the labor and social policies of the Franco dictatorship established in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939), and the links which existed between them. The offer of support to working families was presented through a paternalistic discourse of ‘social justice’ which was combined with tough repressive measures in the labor market. Within this context, compulsory social insurances pursu…

  • Friendly Societies, Commercial Insurance, and the State in Sickness Risk Coverage: The Case of Spain (1880–1944)

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Social…•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    The main aim of this paper is to analyse the singularity of the Spanish position with regard to coverage of the risk of sickness within the context of the different welfare models described in international literature. This analysis enables us to verify that in Spain, as in other countries, there were initially different forms of sickness coverage which coexisted, created by the market, by workers themselves and, gradually, by the state. Within t…

  • Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Regulation in the Life-Insurance Market in Spain, 1880–1935

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•The Business History Review•2008•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    The number of multinationals in the life-insurance sector expanded during the first era of globalization. Many of these firms gravitated to Spain, attracted by factors such as the country's small number of national companies and minimal regulatory requirements. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, however, the Spanish government began to impose more institutional regulations, increasing the guarantees, deposits, and reserves required of insu…

  • Diversificación y cartelización en el seguro español, 1914–1935

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•Revista de Historia Económica /…•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    En el primer tercio del siglo XX se producen varios fenómenos en el mercado de seguros en España por el que se modifica la situación heredada del siglo anterior. El incremento de la competencia impulsa procesos de diversificación y cartelización del mercado. En el primer caso las compañías especializadas se convertirán en compañías generales y en el segundo caso se adoptaran acuerdos entre las empresas de seguros para controlar la competencia. En…

  • Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Regulation in the Life-Insurance Market in Spain, 1880–1935

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•The Business History Review•2008•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    The number of multinationals in the life-insurance sector expanded during the first era of globalization. Many of these firms gravitated to Spain, attracted by factors such as the country's small number of national companies and minimal regulatory requirements. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, however, the Spanish government began to impose more institutional regulations, increasing the guarantees, deposits, and reserves required of insu…

  • The Introduction of Sickness Insurance in Spain in the First Decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1962)

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History of Medicine•2012•Cited by: 6

    [Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care\n\t\t\t\t provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed\n\t\t\t\t and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This\n\t\t\t\t article highlights how the dictatorship accelerated its implementation for political\n\t\t\t\t motives and this resulted in a failure of the system due to the lack of …

  • Labour repression and social justice in Franco's Spain: The political objectives of compulsory sickness insurance, 1942–1957

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Labor History•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    [Abstract:]This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the labor and social policies of the Franco dictatorship established in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939), and the links which existed between them. The offer of support to working families was presented through a paternalistic discourse of ‘social justice’ which was combined with tough repressive measures in the labor market. Within this context, compulsory social insurances pursu…

  • Friendly Societies, Commercial Insurance, and the State in Sickness Risk Coverage: The Case of Spain (1880–1944)

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Social…•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    The main aim of this paper is to analyse the singularity of the Spanish position with regard to coverage of the risk of sickness within the context of the different welfare models described in international literature. This analysis enables us to verify that in Spain, as in other countries, there were initially different forms of sickness coverage which coexisted, created by the market, by workers themselves and, gradually, by the state. Within t…

  • Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: The historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942-86

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•The Economic History Review•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 24

    Throughout history, healthcare, along with diet, has been an essential component of life and a country's welfare. In particular, a country's hospital system is a key indicator for analysing the level of welfare achieved by health coverage. From an economic history perspective, the study of hospital systems is relevant since they stem from public and private investment and produce positive externalities by creating employment and stimulating other…

  • Diversificación y cartelización en el seguro español, 1914–1935

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•Revista de Historia Económica /…•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    En el primer tercio del siglo XX se producen varios fenómenos en el mercado de seguros en España por el que se modifica la situación heredada del siglo anterior. El incremento de la competencia impulsa procesos de diversificación y cartelización del mercado. En el primer caso las compañías especializadas se convertirán en compañías generales y en el segundo caso se adoptaran acuerdos entre las empresas de seguros para controlar la competencia. En…

  • For the workers but without the workers’: Industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Labor History•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical theses, this paper analyses the historical roots of this situation, focusing on the institutions that historically managed industrial accident insurance coverage, especially during the first decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939–1966). This study examines…

  • Risk management and reinsurance strategies in the Spanish insurance market (1880–1940)

    Pablo Gutiérrez González, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Business History•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    Reinsurance allows insurance companies to diversify their risks. However, from this original role, insurance companies have developed various reinsurance strategies in order to expand their market share. From the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1940s, Spanish insurance companies used reinsurance in a largely unregulated context. This article analyses the reinsurance practices and their adaptation to the singularities of the Spanish …

  • The Actuarial Practices of British Insurance Companies in Peripheral Markets: The Case of Spain (1890–1936)

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    The backwardness of actuarial techniques in Spain and the lack of Spanish mortality tables had a bearing on the development of life insurance in Spain. The actuaries of the domestic and foreign companies operating in this country used other countries’ mortality tables, corrected upwards, to draw up their policies. With actuarial reports from the Gresham Life Assurance Society, established in Spain in the 1890s, the difficulties actuaries had to c…

  • The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century

    Juan Carpio Elías, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History•2024•Cited by: 1

    The persecution of ethnic or religious minorities has been a longstanding object of historiographical analysis. One widely disseminated thesis affirms that elites collaborate economically with minorities, but when conflict or crisis erupts the latter are used as a scapegoat to satisfy the masses. In Majorca, by negotiating with the nobility and the clergy, Majorcan converts (Xuetes) had attained an important position in trade and credit by the la…

  • Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990)

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This article discusses the role of employers and their organizations in promoting or hindering social insurance schemes and, ultimately, the welfare state. Unlike most studies that center on countries in periods of democracy, this research focuses on the role of employers, and specifically employers’ mutuals, in the development of the industrial accident scheme during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. The institutional elimination of the class st…

  • Evolución de la gestión del riesgo en el sector agrario español: De la economía preindustrial a los seguros

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Juan Carpio Elías•ARTICLE•Historia Agraria Revista de…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    From a long-term perspective (Early Modern Age until the Spanish Civil War), we analyse how the rural world confronted contingent risks that could cause serious material losses. For the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, our research relied on notarial sources based on leases. For the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we used a variety of sources, such as company statutes and balance sheets, trade journals, the Gaceta de Madrid and official ins…

  • The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez•ARTICLE•Business History•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 20

    The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance business in developed countries. However, much remains to investigate about the origin and evolution of the companies in this sector. This article analyses the genesis, growth and organisational changes of health insurance companies in Spain from the…

  • Diversificación y cartelización en el seguro español, 1914–1935

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•Revista de Historia Económica /…•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    En el primer tercio del siglo XX se producen varios fenómenos en el mercado de seguros en España por el que se modifica la situación heredada del siglo anterior. El incremento de la competencia impulsa procesos de diversificación y cartelización del mercado. En el primer caso las compañías especializadas se convertirán en compañías generales y en el segundo caso se adoptaran acuerdos entre las empresas de seguros para controlar la competencia. En…

  • Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Regulation in the Life-Insurance Market in Spain, 1880–1935

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•The Business History Review•2008•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    The number of multinationals in the life-insurance sector expanded during the first era of globalization. Many of these firms gravitated to Spain, attracted by factors such as the country's small number of national companies and minimal regulatory requirements. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, however, the Spanish government began to impose more institutional regulations, increasing the guarantees, deposits, and reserves required of insu…

  • Friendly Societies, Commercial Insurance, and the State in Sickness Risk Coverage: The Case of Spain (1880–1944)

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Social…•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    The main aim of this paper is to analyse the singularity of the Spanish position with regard to coverage of the risk of sickness within the context of the different welfare models described in international literature. This analysis enables us to verify that in Spain, as in other countries, there were initially different forms of sickness coverage which coexisted, created by the market, by workers themselves and, gradually, by the state. Within t…

  • The Introduction of Sickness Insurance in Spain in the First Decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1962)

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History of Medicine•2012•Cited by: 6

    [Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care\n\t\t\t\t provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed\n\t\t\t\t and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This\n\t\t\t\t article highlights how the dictatorship accelerated its implementation for political\n\t\t\t\t motives and this resulted in a failure of the system due to the lack of …

  • Labour repression and social justice in Franco's Spain: The political objectives of compulsory sickness insurance, 1942–1957

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Labor History•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    [Abstract:]This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the labor and social policies of the Franco dictatorship established in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939), and the links which existed between them. The offer of support to working families was presented through a paternalistic discourse of ‘social justice’ which was combined with tough repressive measures in the labor market. Within this context, compulsory social insurances pursu…

  • The insurance market in Spain: From fragmentation to concentration (1880-2010)

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons•ARTICLE•Entreprises et histoire•2014

    La modernisation du marché espagnol de l’assurance a commencé vers 1870, au cours de la première mondialisation, lorsque les premières multinationales françaises, britanniques, américaines et allemandes se sont implantées dans le pays. En outre, plusieurs compagnies nationales se sont constituées à partir de la fusion de firmes cherchant à être compétitives sur un marché à croissance lente. C’est ainsi que se sont créées les deux compagnies qui o…

  • The Actuarial Practices of British Insurance Companies in Peripheral Markets: The Case of Spain (1890–1936)

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    The backwardness of actuarial techniques in Spain and the lack of Spanish mortality tables had a bearing on the development of life insurance in Spain. The actuaries of the domestic and foreign companies operating in this country used other countries’ mortality tables, corrected upwards, to draw up their policies. With actuarial reports from the Gresham Life Assurance Society, established in Spain in the 1890s, the difficulties actuaries had to c…

  • Risk management and reinsurance strategies in the Spanish insurance market (1880–1940)

    Pablo Gutiérrez González, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Business History•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    Reinsurance allows insurance companies to diversify their risks. However, from this original role, insurance companies have developed various reinsurance strategies in order to expand their market share. From the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1940s, Spanish insurance companies used reinsurance in a largely unregulated context. This article analyses the reinsurance practices and their adaptation to the singularities of the Spanish …

  • El debate en torno al seguro de salud público y privado en España: Desde la transición política a la Ley General de Sanidad (1975-1986)

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Historia y Política Ideas…•2018

    This paper aims to analyze how the foundations of the current Spanish health model were developed and debated in Parliament from the beginning of the democratic transition until the approval of the General Health Law in 1986. During this period there was an important political debate on the model of the health system in Spain that orbited around the role that the State should represent in the management, financing and provision of services and it…

  • The long shadow of charity in the Spanish hospital system, c. 1870–1942

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History•2019

    In the late nineteenth century, in most industrialized countries, the coverage of social risks in general and the risk of sickness in particular came from four basic sectors with different weighting according to country: the state, the market, the traditional family network and solidarity among workers. Historians have shown that, across time, hospital systems tended to be created in developed countries where at least one of these public or priva…

  • The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez•ARTICLE•Business History•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 20

    The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance business in developed countries. However, much remains to investigate about the origin and evolution of the companies in this sector. This article analyses the genesis, growth and organisational changes of health insurance companies in Spain from the…

  • Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: The historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942-86

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•The Economic History Review•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 24

    Throughout history, healthcare, along with diet, has been an essential component of life and a country's welfare. In particular, a country's hospital system is a key indicator for analysing the level of welfare achieved by health coverage. From an economic history perspective, the study of hospital systems is relevant since they stem from public and private investment and produce positive externalities by creating employment and stimulating other…

  • Evolución de la gestión del riesgo en el sector agrario español: De la economía preindustrial a los seguros

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Juan Carpio Elías•ARTICLE•Historia Agraria Revista de…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    From a long-term perspective (Early Modern Age until the Spanish Civil War), we analyse how the rural world confronted contingent risks that could cause serious material losses. For the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, our research relied on notarial sources based on leases. For the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we used a variety of sources, such as company statutes and balance sheets, trade journals, the Gaceta de Madrid and official ins…

  • For the workers but without the workers’: Industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Labor History•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical theses, this paper analyses the historical roots of this situation, focusing on the institutions that historically managed industrial accident insurance coverage, especially during the first decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939–1966). This study examines…

  • Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990)

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Enterprise & Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This article discusses the role of employers and their organizations in promoting or hindering social insurance schemes and, ultimately, the welfare state. Unlike most studies that center on countries in periods of democracy, this research focuses on the role of employers, and specifically employers’ mutuals, in the development of the industrial accident scheme during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. The institutional elimination of the class st…

  • El papel de hospitales municipales y provinciales en España desde una perspectiva histórica

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Dynamis•2021

    Los hospitales municipales y provinciales representaron un papel clave en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España hasta la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Su papel estratégico en la beneficencia del siglo XIX para la cobertura de los pobres se modificó con el avance y la configuración del hospital moderno ubicado en nuevos edificios y técnicas de gestión, con una estructura interna jerarquizada y avances en ámbito diagnóstico-te…

  • Los factores condicionantes en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Dynamis•2021

    Este dossier reúne investigaciones que analizan algunos factores históricos condicionantes en el origen y evolución del sistema hospitalario público y privado en España. Se trata de un tema de plena actualidad en los ámbitos académicos internacionales en un contexto de pandemia provocada por el COVID-19, donde el interés por la salud pública y las infraestructuras hospitalarias ha cobrado un nuevo interés, también social. Por tanto, resulta un bu…

  • The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century

    Juan Carpio Elías, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Social History•2024•Cited by: 1

    The persecution of ethnic or religious minorities has been a longstanding object of historiographical analysis. One widely disseminated thesis affirms that elites collaborate economically with minorities, but when conflict or crisis erupts the latter are used as a scapegoat to satisfy the masses. In Majorca, by negotiating with the nobility and the clergy, Majorcan converts (Xuetes) had attained an important position in trade and credit by the la…

  • The emergence of financial capital in the health insurance business in Europe: The case of Spain in the last fifty years

    Open Access•Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Jerònia Pons-Pons•ARTICLE•Revista de Historia Económica /…•2024•References: 30

    Sickness insurance companies were developed in Spain by doctors and healthcare professionals, remaining outside the interests of general insurance companies. Their management was hardly professional, with limited actuarial techniques and they only accounted for a small percentage of total insurance business premiums. From the 1970s onwards, various factors changed this situation, driving processes of concentration, with numerous takeovers and mer…

  • Distribution channels and growth strategies in Spanish insurance: From networks of agents to branch offices (1870–1940)

    Jerònia Pons-Pons, Jerònia Pons Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Business History•2024•References: 20

    This article analyses the factors that determined the choice of distribution channel within the Spanish insurance industry and its relation with growth strategies performed by firms. To achieve this goal, we have gone through documentary sources from the main companies to examine the relationships between companies and agents and their costs, namely: the design of agency contracts, the different procedures on the selection of agents, and the guid…

  • Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime

    Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Dolores Ruiz-Berdún et al.•ARTICLE•Women s History Review•2024

    Over the last century, Western countries have undergone a process of medicalisation and hospitalisation of childbirth. This process led to the subordination of midwives to doctors’ authority and made the hospital the main focus of childbirth care, which entailed a break with the traditional formula. This article analyses the case of Spain, a country of special interest due to the convergence of three elements: a belated passage of public health i…

  • Formación histórica de hospitales independientes sevillanos durante el siglo XX y su incorporación a los grandes grupos hospitalarios en el siglo XXI

    Open Access•E García Cruz, Jerònia Pons-Pons et al.•ARTICLE•Ayer Revista de Historia…•2025

    A partir de la primera mitad del siglo XX, muchos médicos especialistas crearon pequeñas clínicas y hospitales en las principales ciudades españolas, entre ellas Sevilla, para atender la demanda de las clases adineradas. El objetivo del trabajo es el estudio del proceso mediante el cual estas pequeñas empresas hospitalarias independientes van creciendo hasta que a finales del siglo XX son absorbidas por grandes grupos hospitalarios en manos del c…

  • El papel familiar y económico de las judeoconversas ante la represión de la Inquisición: Mallorca 1677-1691

    Open Access•Jerònia Pons-Pons, Juan Carpio Elías•ARTICLE•Studia Historica Historia Moderna•2026•References: 23

    Entre 1677 y 1691 el Tribunal de la Inquisición de Mallorca llevó a cabo una amplia represión con más de 250 casos sobre la población juedeoconversa. La extensión y riqueza de la documentación económica generada, conservada en el Archivo del Reino de Mallorca y del Archivo Histórico Nacional, permite estudiar el impacto de los procesos inquisitoriales. Algo más de la mitad de las sentencias concentradas en los autos de fe de 1679 y 1691 afectaron…

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