Publications des institutions partenaires
The contentious politics of unemployment in Europe: Political claim-making, policy deliberation and exclusion from the labor market – A research outline
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2002
Sorting out the effects of Switzerland's accession to the EU: A simulation analysis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
The Political Economy of International Migration in a Ricardo-Viner Model
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Decomposing the economic costs and benefits of accession to the EU: the Swiss case
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Investigating the shape of the EKC: a nonparametric approach
FEEM Note di Lavoro Series CLIM
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
U.S. - EU Relations : Drifting Apart? Disssociative and Associative Approaches
This chapter exposes exaggerations and sometimes even the objectives errors which have appeared in the 'dissociative approach' : those researchers who have wrongly predicted a dislocation of the transatlantic link after the end of the Cold War. This study mainly analyses the reasoning which led to affirm that NATO was condemned to disappeart, that the Uruguay Round...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Multiculturalism, differentiated citizenship and the problem of self determination
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Concluding remarks: Conceptual distinctions for the study of political altruism
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Social Networks and Individual Perceptions: Explaining Differential Participation in Social Movements
This paper seeks to explain differential participation in social movements. It does so by attempting to bridge structural-level and individual-level explanations. We test a number of hypotheses drawn from the social networks and the rationalist perspectives on individual engagement by means of survey data on members of a major organization of the Swiss solidarity movement. Both...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Different issues, same process: Solidarity and ecology movements in Switzerland
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Robust Lorenz Curves: A Semi-Parametric Approach
Lorenz curves and second-order dominance criteria are known to be sensitive to data contamination in the right tail of the distribution. We propose two ways of dealing with the problem: (1) Estimate Lorenz curves using parametric models for income distributions, and (2) Combine empirical estimation with a parametric (robust) estimation of the upper tail of the distribution using the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Resistant Selection of the Smoothing Parameter for Smoothing Splines
Robust automatic selection techniques for the smoothing parameter of a smoothing spline are introduced. They are based on a robust predictive error criterion and can be viewed as robust versions of C p and cross-validation. They lead to smoothing splines which are stable and reliable in terms of mean squared error over a large spectrum of model distributions.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Robust Inference for Generalized Linear Models
By starting from a natural class of robust estimators for generalized linear models based on the notion of quasi-likelihood, we define robust deviances that can be used for stepwise model selection as in the classical framework. We derive the asymptotic distribution of tests based on robust deviances, and we investigate the stability of their asymptotic level under contamination. The...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Putting Robust Statistical Methods into Practice: Poverty Analysis in Tunisia
Poverty analysis often results in the computation of poverty indexes based on so-called poverty lines which can be region speci…c poverty lines. The poverty lines are made of two components, namely the amount of income to satisfy the food and the non food needs. For both components, one needs to estimate quantities such as local prices or the consummers' average basket, and this...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Distributional Dominance with Dirty Data
Distributional dominance criteria are commonly applied to draw welfare inferences about comparisons, but conclusions drawn from empirical implementations of dominance criteria may be inßuenced by data contamination. We examine a non-parametric approach to reÞning Lorenz-type comparisons and apply the technique to two important examples from the LIS data-base.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Religion, culture and conflict resolutio: christianity
L'auteur tente de démontrer l'ambivalence fondamentale du christianisme dans sa manière d'envisager les conflits et de les résoudre. Si la tonalité du message du Christ est en gros susceptible d'être qualifiée de pacifiste, ce n'est de loin pas le cas du christianisme constantinien.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2001
Panel data estimation of the intergenerational correlation of incomes
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2000
Wage Inequality and Varieties of Capitalism
This article draws on a new data set that enables the authors to compare the distribution of income from employment across OECD countries. Specifically, the article conducts a pooled cross-sectional time-series analysis of the determinants of wage inequality in sixteen countries from 1973 to 1995. The analysis shows that varieties of capitalism matter. The authors find that the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2000
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