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The Denationalization of Immigration Politics: Is It Happening and Who Benefits?

Many scholars have recently argued that nation-state—centered approaches in comparative sociology and political science are obsolete. In this view, we have entered, or are about to enter, a new “postnational” or “transnational” era characterized by complex and qualitatively new patterns of multilevel governance, in which the nation-state still plays a role, though a drastically...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2008

The contentious politics of unemployment in Europe: an introduction

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2008

Political, Biographical, and Cultural Consequences of Social Movements

This essay reviews recent and less recent literature on the consequences of social movements and protest activities. It focuses on three types of consequences: political, personal and biographical, and cultural. Political consequences and, in particular, policy outcomes receive most attention, as they are those which have been addresses most often by students of social movements. The...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2008

Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Mobilization of the Unemployed: A Cross-National Analysis

This article follows a revised political opportunity approach to argue that mobilization of underprivileged groups is constrained by the political opportunity structures provided by the institutional context of the country in which they act. Contrary to traditional opportunity theories, it is suggested that their mobilization also depends on a set of opportunities specific to the...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2008

Le mouvement altermondialiste en Suisse : L’héritage des nouveaux mouvements sociaux

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2008

Estimation of quantile treatment effects with STATA

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In this paper, we discuss the implementation of various...

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Université de St-Gall - Schools of Management

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English / 01/01/2008

Quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design

This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, training programs and unemployment insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an intuitive tool to characterize the effects of these interventions on the outcome distribution. We...

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Université de St-Gall - Schools of Management

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Français / 01/01/2008

Unconditional quantile treatment effects under endogeneity

This paper develops IV estimators for unconditional quantile treatment effects (QTE) when the treatment selection is endogenous. In contrast to conditional QTE, i.e. the effects conditional on a large number of covariates X, the unconditional QTE summarize the effects of a treatment for the entire population. They are usually of most interest in policy evaluations because the results...

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Université de St-Gall - Schools of Management

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English / 01/01/2008

Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure - Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and allowing for firm-specific...

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Université de St-Gall - Schools of Management

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English / 01/01/2008

Precio de la tierra con presion urbana: Un modelo para Espana

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Université de Genève

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Espagnol / 01/01/2008

Impact de la retraite anticipée sur les cotisations et les prestations de l’AVS

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2008

Predicting House Prices with Spatial Dependence: Impacts of Alternative Submarket Definitions

We analyze the impacts of alternative submarket definitions when predicting house prices in a mass appraisal context, using both ordinary least squares (OLS) and geostatistical techniques. For this purpose, we use over 13,000 housing transactions for Louisville, Kentucky. We use districts defined by the local property tax assessment office as well as a classification of census tracts...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2008

Assessing multivariate predictors of financial market movements: A latent factor framework for ordinal data

Much of the trading activity in Equity markets is directed to brokerage houses. In exchange they provide so-called "soft dollars" which basically are amounts spent in "research" for identifying profitable trading opportunities. Soft dollars represent about USD 1 out of every USD 10 paid in commissions. Obviously they are costly, and it is interesting for an...