In: Oecologia, 2015, vol. 177, no. 1, p. 123-131
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In: Empirical Economics, 2015, vol. 48, no. 3, p. 1233-1266
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In: Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 239-274
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The implementation of a lockdown to control the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a strong debate in several countries. This makes it crucial to shed light on the actual benefits of such kind of policy. To this purpose, we focus on the Swiss lockdown during the first wave of Covid-19 infections and estimate the number of potentially saved lives. To predict the number of deaths in absence of any...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO009.
This dissertation examines how intra-organizational networks interact with individual and macro-level characteristics to affect employees’ innovativeness and access to social capital in knowledge-based organizations. Primarily, my dissertation focuses on how such intra- organizational network dynamics limit or perpetuate gender inequality in the workplace. For example, I demonstrate that to...
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In: AIDS care, 2018, vol. 31, no. 1, p. 113-116
No study to date has focused on barriers to condom use specifically among young immigrants to Europe from sub-Saharan Africa. Based on a qualitative study in sociology, this paper explores generational differences in barriers to condom use between first-generation immigrants (born in Africa and arrived in Switzerland after age 10) and second-generation immigrants (born in Switzerland to two...
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In: European Journal of Ageing, 2014, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 171-181
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In: International Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 261-270
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In: Disability & Society, 2017, vol. 32, no. 8, p. 1199-1215
This paper examines different models of disability policy in European welfare regimes on the basis of secondary data. OECD data measuring social protection and labour- market integration is complemented with an index which measures the outcomes of disability civil rights. Eurobarometer data is used to construct the index. The country modelling by cluster analysis indicates that an...
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In: German economic review, 2013, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 13-42
The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt for a decentralized organization. We evaluate the relative success of both types in terms of...
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