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Asistimos en la actualidad a la finalización del proceso de liberalización del sector eléctrico que se inició a finales del siglo XX. Durante más de cincuenta años esta actividad estuvo fuertemente regulada, pero no siempre fue así. El retorno a un mercado de libre competencia y...
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If we compare the Castilian fiscal system with English, French or Dutch, two basic differences are apparent: in one hand, in England, France and Holland the fiscal system was a mixture of indirect taxes and direct taxes and in the other hand, the financial revolution had been carried out in the...
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Este artículo tiene como principal objetivo contabilizar la presencia del capital británico en el desarrollo de los ferrocarriles españoles de vía ancha. Aunque es ampliamente conocido el papel abrumador que jugaron los capitales franceses en la expansión ferroviaria en España, algunos...
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The main consistent conclusions of the empirical literature about the effects of minimum wages are threefold. First, there exists evidence about the negative employment effects of minimum wages, notably for the least-skilled groups. Secondly, after an increase in minimum wage, the probability...
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This paper studies the origins of trademark registration in Spain and offers, for the first time, data across sectors and regions with a long-term perspective. In apparent contradiction to the slow path of industrialization and the economic backwardness of Spain between 1850 and the 1940s,...
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El artículo estudia el discurso elaborado en los espacios de la propiedad industrial durante el siglo XIX español. Se presta especial atención a la conceptualización y representación del cambio tecnológico y la retórica empleada por aquellos agentes sociales próximos al mundo de la...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es el de analizar un periodo de la historia de España desde la óptica de la acción sindical en una de las principales empresas del país. El trabajo se inicia con una introducción en la que se contextualizan los principales acontecimientos políticos y...
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Despite the well-known static cost-inefficiency of uniform emission standards to control pollution, governments continue to use them in a variety of settings. In this paper, we show that inspection agencies can sometimes use their informational advantage to design monitoring strategies that...
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This paper explores the relationship between trade openness and economic growth through a change in institutions. To do so, the paper creates a theory of endogenous institutional change where there are three social groups, each one owns a specific production factor. An ellite (landowners)...
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The way in which professional and familiar life are reconciled might have important economic consequences both at individual and aggregate level. While as a flexible form of employment, part-time work may serve to reconcile professional and family life and increase female participation in the...
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