In: Vallesia, 2014, no. 69, p. 453-521
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019ECO003.
In this thesis, I investigate two of the main challenges faced by developed societies: aging and migration. In the first chapter, I consider the cultural determinants of elderly care arrangement decisions. The empirical strategy focuses on the three German and French speaking Swiss bilingual cantons. Particularly, since the structure of long-term care provision is planned at cantonal level, I...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; TDB 2386.
Ce mandat a pour but d’établir une vision d’avenir de la Lecture publique dans le canton de Neuchâtel. Il a été réalisé à la demande de M. Jacques-André Humair, directeur des Bibliothèques de la Ville et des Jeunes de La Chaux-de-Fonds. Craignant l’abrogation de la Loi sur l’aide à la lecture publique et aux bibliothèques de 1981, il a été jugé opportun de s’interroger sur...
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In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2013, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 783-804
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2015.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015ECO004.
This thesis assesses two different sub-fields inside public economics in general and taxation in particular: tax incidence and tax competition. The first chapter analyzes the incidence of taxes in the Canadian retail gasoline market by devising a novel empirical test, based on observables, to assess whether taxes are under- or overshifted in an oligopolistic market. The results show that...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015ECO003.
Switzerland is a country with a strongly decentralized political system, based on federalism and institutions of direct democracy, on a liberal economic culture, and on a well-developed tradition of mutualism and social security (generous social expenditure and welfare system). Switzerland is unique for its high level of decentralization and for the particular distribution of competences and...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014ECO010.
The term “open production” is frequently used to describe production systems that rely on volunteer participants who are willing to participate, produce, and bear private costs in order to provide a public good. Examples of open production are becoming increasingly common in many industries. What make these productions possible? How may they be sustained in a world of organizations in which...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2014 ; TDB 2223.
Alors que le jeu vidéo est présent depuis plusieurs années dans les bibliothèques françaises, américaines ou néerlandaises, la Suisse accuse un retard certain dans ce domaine. Bibliomedia, fondation de droit public active dans le développement des bibliothèques et la promotion de la lecture, est consciente de l’essor que connaît le jeu vidéo et de sa présence de plus en plus...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014ECO007.
In the last two decades many countries have proposed structural reforms to decentralize public tasks as well as policy decisions to sub-central jurisdictions. The aim of these reforms, accordingly with the common theoretical arguments, was to produce beneficial effects such as an improved matching between citizens' preferences and policy adoption, an increase in politicians' accountability...
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