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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Incentives beyond the money and motivational capital in health care organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores the conditions that characterize the optimality for a principal (health manager) to undertake investments to motivate agents (doctors). In the model, doctors are intrinsically motivated and can have ...
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 ...
Performance appraisal: dimensions and determinants
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that influence the measures ...
Estimation of the cointegrating rank in fractional cointegration
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper proposes an estimator of the cointegrating rank of a potentially cointegrated multivariate fractional process. Our setting is very flexible, allowing the individual observable processes to have different integration ...
Lorenz and lexicographic maximal allocations for bankruptcy problems
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper investigates the use of egalitarian criteria to select allocations in bankruptcy problems. In our work, we characterize the sets of Lorenz maximal elements for these problems. We show that the allocation selected ...
A simple test for the equality of integration orders
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
A necessary condition for two time series to be nontrivially cointegrated is the equality of their respective integration orders. Thus, it is standard practice to test for order homogeneity prior to testing for cointegration. ...