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Este número especial de la revista se dedica al análisis y crítica de los nudges, entendidos como intervenciones de política pública orientadas a alterar el comportamiento de los individuos sin eliminar ninguna de las opciones a su alcance ni alterar sus incentivos económicos (Thaler y Sunstein, 2009: 6). Un nudge, para poder ser calificado como tal, no puede consistir en un mandato —que lleve aparejada una sanción, típicamente jurídica— y tiene que ser además fácil de esquivar. Por poner dos ejemplos: colocar la comida más sana a la vista en un supermercado es un nudge, mientras que prohibir la venta de alcohol no lo sería

Development of generic and strategic skills through a wiki platform in industrial engineering programs

[EN] This paper describes the collaborative learning task carried out in the framework of a Strength of Materials course in an undergraduate degree program in Industrial Engineering using a wiki platform as a support tool. Stages of the teaching/learning process are described. These are: organization of the wiki to host the work of student groups, creation of working groups and assignation of projects, delivery of guidance material and model, editing the project and publishing pages on the wiki, assessments performed using rubrics, and the results obtained. The wiki platform provides interesting statistics for evaluating cooperation between students and time variation of students’ effort. The final quality of the projects is very high because a midterm evaluation in the form of a “peer review rubric” is carried out. Then, students improve their projects. The paper concludes by gathering the opinions made by students; the benefits provided by this teaching experience are then analyzed.This project was funded by the Vice-Rectorate of Faculty, Planning and Teaching Innovation at the University of La Rioja through the Academic Management of Training and Teaching Innovation, within the framework of the announcement of Teaching Innovation Project for the 2013-2014 academic year.Celorrio-Barragué, L.; Lopes-Ramalho, A.; Calvete Gaspar, M. (2016). Development of generic and strategic skills through a wiki platform in industrial engineering programs. Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences. 3(1):152-168. doi:10.4995/muse.2016.4486.SWORD15216831Adell, J. (2007). "Wikis en educación." In J. Cabero & J. Barroso (Eds.), p. 323-333. Editorial Octaedro, Granada.Leuf, Bo; Ward Cunningham (2001): The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web. Boston: Addison Wesley

Unemployment benefits : discursive convergence, distant realities

Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004Unemployment protection systems have certain characteristics in common in Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Italy: they are compulsory and contributory-proportional, although in Uruguay, it also has a capitalisation supplement. Despite the similarities, they work differently because the context of informal employment chiefly, and unemployment, low salaries and precariousness differ greatly. Consequently, the unemployment protection coverage rate varies. Theories of the Active Welfare State, the Investor State and the reforms of unemployment protection systems have led to a certain modernising language being adopted in these countries: activation, employability, conditionality, lifelong learning, flexibility, which are, among others, words shared with Europe. However, the meanings of these words differ according to the institutional context of each country. In Latin America the welfare state is low institutionalised even almost non-existent, while in Europe it is a diverse institution. Despite this, the four countries share an upward trend in benefit policies, in accordance with the increase in poverty risk

Social Models for Dealing with Inequalities

Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004This chapter compares social models in Europe and Latin America. The goal is to study the interaction between two institutions: on the one hand, pre-distributive (ex ante) institutions, such as the structure and coverage of collective bargaining and, on the other hand, post-distributive (ex post) institutions, such as unemployment protection and social policy. Pre-distributive institutions are important for correcting inequalities in the labour market, because they introduce guidelines for egalitarian wage structures. Post-distributive institutions help to mitigate inequalities generated in the labour market. The methodology is based on statistical analysis of a series of indicators related to pre and post-distributive policies. The results present three types of model: (1) coordinated economies, typical of neo-corporatist Scandinavian countries; (2) mixed economies, typical of Mediterranean systems, and (3) uncoordinated economies, which equate to liberalism and the Latin American 'structural heterogeneity' model. It is neo-corporatist coordinated economies that generate the most pre and post-distributive equality. In turn, uncoordinated economies, and Latin American ones in particular, generate more inequalities due to highly informal employment and the weakness of their post-distributive institutions