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Will small energy consumers be faster in transition? Evidence from the early shift from coal to oil in Latin America
(Elsevier, 2012)
Artículo / Artikulua,
This paper provide evidence of the early transition from coal to oil for 20 Latin American
countries over the first half of the 20th century, which does not fit the transition experiences of large
energy consumers. These ...
Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
Artículo / Artikulua,
This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open ...
Ranking opportunity profiles through dependent evaluation of policies
(Springer US, 2012)
Artículo / Artikulua,
Rankings to evaluate opportunity distributions present in most of the literature judge a policy (change from one distribution of opportunities to another) on the basis of the changes created and, thus, independently ...
The great moderation of inflation: a structural analysis of recent U.S. monetary business cycles
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
U.S. inflation has experienced a great moderation in the last two decades. This paper examines the factors behind this and other stylized facts, such as the weaker correlation of inflation and nominal interest rate (Gibson ...
Incentives beyond the money: identity and motivational capital in public organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organisation) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organisation can ...
Non-elective cesarean sections in public hospitals: hospital capacity constraints and doctor´s incentives
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Using administrative records of births from the Perinatal Surveillance System of the Social Security System (ESSALUD) in Peru, we test whether high admissions of pregnant women affected unplanned cesarean section rates in ...
Enrolling the self-employed in mandatory health insurance in Colombia: are we missing other factors?
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We assess the impact that Colombia’s 1993 health sector reform had on the enrollment of self-employed workers in mandatory social health insurance scheme, with a especial focus on the independent contractors. This group ...
El trabajo forzado en infraestructuras ferroviarias bajo el franquismo (1938 – 1957): una estimación cuantitativa
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
En este artículo se aborda el trabajo de presos y prisioneros de guerra en la ampliación y reconstrucción de vías férreas durante la guerra civil española y la dictadura franquista. En una primera parte se presentan los ...
The diffusion of pay for performance across occupations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analysed. Our results show that there are significant differences ...
Efectos de la reducción de la jornada laboral en un modelo con dos sectores
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
En tiempos de crisis económicas, con altas tasas de paro, no debemos desconsiderar ninguna política susceptible de crear empleo. La reducción de la jornada laboral es una de ellas. La aplicación de cualquier política puede ...