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Exploring Leave Policy Preferences: A Comparison of Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States

Valarino, Isabel ; Duvander, Ann-Zofie ; Haas, Linda ; Neyer, Gerda

In: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2018, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 118-147

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"Leaving No Child Behind:” Preferences for Social Inclusion and Altruism

Menon, Martina ; Perali, Federico ; Veronesi, Marcella

In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, vol. 17, no. 3, p. -

Università della Svizzera italiana

Paiements extérieurs et crises de dette : Vers un nouvel ordre monétaire international? = External payments and debt crises : toward a new international monetary order?

Zio, Adonija ; Bradley, Xavier (Dir.) ; Cencini, Alvaro (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO013.

The sovereign debt crisis is one of the most recurrent crises of the capitalist system. These crises emerge after a strong accumulation of debt by countries. The payment of this debt most often causes internal distortions and financial instability. Studies related to these issues favour the microeconomic approach and explain that the imprudent behaviour of debtors and creditors is at the basis...

Université de Fribourg

On the Sensitivity of Wage Gap Decompositions

Huber, Martin ; Solovyeva, Anna

In: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, vol. 41, no. 1, p. 1-33

This paper investigates the sensitivity of average wage gap decompositions to methods resting on different assumptions regarding endogeneity of observed characteristics, sample selection into employment, and estimators’ functional form. Applying five distinct decomposition techniques to estimate the gender wage gap in the U.S. using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979,...

Université de Fribourg

Trabajo Decente? : Decent Work from a Cuban perspective

Izquierdo, Osnaide ; Jany, Nina

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2020, vol. 2, no. 6, p. Article: 2.6

In this article, we critically examine Cuban social and labour policies as attempts of a practical application of Decent Work principles in a state-socialist context. We start with an examination of past and present models of socio-economic development and labour relations in Cuba. This is followed by an overview of the main Cuban policy principles related to Decent Work, which we contrast with...

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Equal status, but unequal perceptions: language conflict in the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne

Elmiger, Daniel

In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2015, vol. 2015, no. 235, p. 33-52

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Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters

Dreber, Anna ; von Essen, Emma ; Ranehill, Eva

In: Experimental Economics, 2014, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 154-172