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L'évolution de la sécurité sociale suisse face aux grands défis actuels
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1997
Vaclav Havel's moral state : a Kohlbergian approach
What does it mean to be moral ? What does it mean to be a moral political man ? This contribution takes Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development as the analytical frame to answer these questions. Based on the writings of Vaclav Havel, political dissident and then first president of the postcommunist Tchecoslovakian Republic, our study displays how emblematic a moral man...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Efficient private provision of public goods when by rewarding deviations from average
This paper proposes the following incentive scheme for the private provision of public goods: government should reward and penalize deviations from the mean contribution by an appropriate factor. This makes efficient contribution individually rational even if individuals see through the government budget constraint.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/1996
Long-term care insurance and bequests as instruments for shaping intergenerational relationships
The growing demand for long-term care (LTC) causes the relationship between children and their parents to gain increased importance for society. Parents may create incentives for children to provide LTC through bequests, or they may purchase LTC insurance. While these instruments have been analyzed separately in the literature, this article shows that optimal LTC insurance must be...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Unskilled labor and wage determination: an empirical investigation for Germany
This article contributes to the ongoing debate on native wage impacts of immigration. I propose a mobile-fixed factor distinction as a framework in which to think about the differential impact of immigration on various labor market groups. Skilled workers are treated as a fixed factor of production since the strong reliance on skill certification in Germany inhibits mobility and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Employment Prospects and Skill Acquisition of Apprenticeship-Trained Workers in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984-90, the author analyzes the entrance of young individuals into the German labor market, comparing the experience of apprenticeship graduates to that of graduates from universities, full-time vocational schools, and secondary schools. Apprentices experienced fewer unemployment spells in the transition to their first full-time...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of underreported count data with an application to worker absenteeism
A new approach for modeling under-reported Poisson counts is developed. The parameters of the model are estimated by Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. An application to workers absenteeism data from the German Socio-Economic Panel illustrates the fruitfulness of the approach. Worker absenteeism and the level of pay are unrelated, but absence rates increase with firm size.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Die theoretische Fundierung unvollständiger Verträge
Innerhalb der Kontrakttheorie hat sich im vergangenen Jahrzehnt die Theorie unvollständiger Verträge als besonders fruchtbar erwiesen. Jüngste Forschungsarbeiten zeigen jedoch, daß die durch Hart und Moore (1988) als gegeben geglaubte Fundierung nicht sehr robust ist. Ziel des Artikels ist es, einen Einblick in aktuelle Fragen und Ergebnisse der diesbezüglichen Forschung zu...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/1996
A fair mechanism for the efficient reduction of global CO2-emissions
Because of the public good character of global emissions it is difficult to implement reduction
targets as formulated at Toronto or Rio. This paper presents a simple mechanism for inducing
efficient contributions to the reductions of emissions as a non-cooperative equilibrium. The
world is partitioned into groups of countries, and then each country is taxed or...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Retirement of spouses and social security reform
The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets, sharing rules for income and housework, or complementarity of leisure. Because of data limitations, only a few empirical studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view interdependent retirement could become important if legislators in different EC countries are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
The cross-country Engel curve for product diversification
This paper employs ICP expenditure data to investigate the relationship between income and product diversity. It turns out that per-capita income has a strong positive impact on the number of products consumed at a non-negligible level in a country, and a significant negative impact on the concentration of consumers' expenditure across different goods categories. Inequality in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions: The Swedish Employer Offensive in Comparative Perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Social Movements and Institutional Selectivity
Contrary to what is usually implied by work on the relationship between political opportunity structures and social movements, political institutions are not a general setting offering or denying formal access and political opportunities to every challenge, but rather favor certain types of movements and constrain others. This process of institutional selectivity depends on the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
L'étude de l'action collective entre deux traditions sociologiques
L'étude de l'action collective et des mouvements sociaux a été caractérisée par deux grandes écoles. La tradition culturelle et sociologique européenne, qui présente des traits de l'idéalisme allemand et du holisme méthodologique, a conduit à étudier l'action collective principalement sur le plan théorique et macro-sociologique. En revanche, la tradition...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1996
Modelling Income Distribution in Spain: A Robust Parametric Approach
This paper presents a robust estimation of two income distribution models using Spanish data for the period 1990-91 under three different concepts of income. The effect on the estimates of the Theil index due to the choice of the definition of income and of the estimation method is also analysed.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Kodi i punës, Ligj për të drejtën e grevës, Ligj për inspectoriatin shtetëror të punës, Ligj për nxitjen e punësimit
Institution partenaire
Albanais / 01/01/1996
The Theory of Transfers in a Multilateral World: The Customs Union Case with Structural Adjustment
In this paper the transfer problem is analysed in a three country, three commodity (including one non-traded good) trade model where two countries belong to a customs union. The three countries A, B and C each produce three goods and engage in an asymmetric pattern of trade. Countries A and B form a customs union and C remains outside the union. Several results are obtained....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Ökologische Bewegungen im internationalen Vergleich: Zwischen Konflikt und Kooperation
Ausgehend vom politischen Prozeβansatz diskutieren wir die Entwicklung der Ökologiebewegung in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten in mehreren westlichen Ländern. Abgesehen von Frankreich, wo sie aufgrund des spezifischen polirischen Kontextes organisatorisch schwach, in ihren Aktionen radikal und weitgehend ohne Erfolg blieb, hat diese Bewegung in den untersuchten Ländern mitgliederstarke...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/1996
La rédaction d'un code du travail pour l'Albanie
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1996
L'avenir des régimes de retraites : quelques remarques notamment au regard du droit international et européen
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1996
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