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Culture, Work Attitudes, and Job Search: Evidence from the Swiss Language Border

Eugster, Beatrix ; Lalive, Rafael ; Steinhauer, Andreas ; Zweimüller, Josef

In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 1056-1100

‘Modernize and Die'? German social democracy and the electoral consequences of the Agenda 2010

Schwander, Hanna ; Manow, Philip

In: Socio-Economic Review, 2017, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 117-134

Policy evaluation: labour market liberalization, unemployment and second home construction : Evidence from Switzerland

Stricker, Luzius ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO010.

This thesis is composed of three different chapters focusing on labour market policies, unemployment and the construction industry. The analyses aim to contribute to the microeconomic theory, proving three different concepts of externally caused variations, affecting both, the labour market equilibrium and the production function. In detail, the first part analyses the employment effects of...

Labour market outcomes : Careers, transitions and durations

Malfitano, Paolo ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO004.

This thesis contributes to labour economics by considering a wide range of factors influencing career paths, transitions to self- employment and duration in entrepreneurship. In the past literature, several studies have analysed labour market outcomes, transitions and durations. Nevertheless, there is the need of knowing more about the influence of individual and background characteristics on...

Perceptions of job insecurity in Switzerland : evidence using verbal and numerical descriptors

Baruffini, Moreno

In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019, vol. 16, no. 10, p. 1785

The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of job insecurity among employees, applying a panel model that allows us to account for the business cycle. In addition, the data will enable the comparison of two measures of job insecurity, one with a cardinal scale, and one with an ordinal scale. First of all, this paper carries out a descriptive analysis of job insecurity, taking into...

Monetary policy and interest rate products

Zurowski, Wojciech ; Schneider, Paul (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 20019ECO002.

My PhD thesis consists of three papers which study how interest rate products' prices react to both the central bank's policy goals and communication. As tool I make use of various econometric techniques such as affine models, general method of moments or Haar like filtering. The first chapter studies government bond excess term premia. I show that their predictability is driven by monetary...

Slope Stability Analysis Based on Autocorrelated Shear Strength Parameters = La stabilité d'un versant basé sur l'autocorrélation de la résistance de cisaillement

Tietje, O. ; Fitze, P. ; Schneider, H.

In: Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2014, vol. 32, no. 6, p. 1477-1483

Occupational functioning and work impairment in association with personality disorder trait-scores

Hengartner, Michael ; Müller, Mario ; Rodgers, Stephanie ; Rössler, Wulf ; Ajdacic-Gross, Vladeta

In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2014, vol. 49, no. 2, p. 327-335

The impact of labor market entry conditions on initial job assignment and wages

Brunner, Beatrice ; Kuhn, Andreas

In: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, vol. 27, no. 3, p. 705-738

Language, integration, and investment: The regulation of diversity in the context of unemployment

Flubacher, Mi-Cha ; Coray, Renata ; Duchêne, Alexandre

In: Multilingua, 2016, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 675-696