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Introduction: cycling backwards
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/02/2017
The centralization-decentralization issue
The make-up of the EU institutions, and their evolution, should explicitly be based on widely accepted federalism principles. This paper applies federalism principles to a few crucial questions, mainly fiscal policy, fiscal discipline and structural reforms, using where possible lessons from existing federations. After introducing the topic, Section 2 briefly reviews the key message...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 24/02/2017
Minimum wages and firm employment: evidence from China
This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage data set matched to disaggregated firm survey data. We investigate both the effect of imposing a minimum wage, and the effect of the policies that tightened enforcement in 2004. We find that the average effect of minimum wage changes is modest and positive, and that...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/02/2017
On the roles of different foreign currencies in European bank lending
We draw on a new data set on the use of Swiss francs and other currencies by European banks to assess the patterns of foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used predominantly for lending to residents, especially households. It is sensitive to the interest rate differential, exchange rate developments,...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/02/2017
A world without the WTO: what's at stake?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/02/2017
The role of education in preventing and combating youth unemployment
Youth unemployment and disengagement from both education and work are negatively associated with levels of completed education and skill proficiency. Recent research highlights the importance of focusing on the quality of education and improving actual learning outcomes for all. Empirical findings show the central importance of preventive strategies targeted towards disadvantaged...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/02/2017
The legitimate regulatory distinction: challenging the boundary between interpretation and law-making in the appellate body
This paper focuses on the nature of the Appellate Body's interpretative method in arriving at its decision to read-in that Article 2.1 of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) will not prohibit a detrimental impact on competitive opportunities for imports in cases where such detrimental impact stems exclusively from a legitimate regulatory distinction....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
The future of the United Kingdom in Europe: exit scenarios and their implications on trade relations
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
Income tax in the WTO: substantive reach and rivaling proceedings
This paper considers the intersection of income tax and WTO rules. It defends an interpretation of the non-discrimination obligations in line with customary rules of interpretation as stipulated by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. It, thus, departs from the historic assumption that income taxes are not or only to a very limited extent covered by the GATT. Subsequently,...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
Four essays on fiscal decentralisation and secessions
Entre 1945 et 2008, le nombre de pays reconnus internationalement a augmenté de 74 à 193 (Spolaore, 2008). Plus récemment, plusieurs pays ont vécu une vague croissante de décentralisation. Dans les pays de l’OCDE, par exemple, le nombre de gouvernements infranationaux a atteint 140 000 en 2014. De plus, ces gouvernements infranationaux ont une influence croissante dans ces pays (OCDE...
Institution partenaire
English / 14/02/2017
Method and application of characterisation of life cycle impact data of construction materials using geographic information systems
Purpose: This research presents a methodology to characterize life cycle impact data (LCIA) of alternative construction materials outside of the European context.
Methods: This methodology was based on the characterization of data and life cycle assessment (LCA) using geographic information systems (GIS), which has been proposed as an effective alternative for this purpose. The...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Job security as a threatened resource: Reactions to job insecurity in culturally distinct regions
As downsizing and restructuring have become global phenomena, the impact of job insecurity on employee attitudes has received significant attention. However, research examining the role of cultural dimensions has been largely unexplored. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we investigated whether the relationships between both quantitative job insecurity (i.e. the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
When a door closes, a window opens? Long-term labor market effects of involuntary separations
This study estimates the earning losses of workers experiencing an involuntary job separation. We employ, for the first time in the earning losses literature, a Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood estimator with fixed effects that has several advantages with respect to conventional fixed effects models. The Poisson estimator allows considering the full set of involuntary separations,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Integrating QCA and HLM for Multilevel Research on Organizational Configurations
Mixed methods systematically combine multiple research approaches—either in basic parallel, sequential, or conversion designs or in more complex multilevel or integrated designs. Multilevel mixed designs are among the most valuable and dynamic. Yet current multilevel designs, which are rare in the mixed methods literature, do not strongly integrate qualitative and quantitative...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Die Rolle der dualen Berufsausbildung für das Innovationssystem in Deutschland
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2017
Detecting nestedness in graphs
Many real-world networks have a nested structure. Examples range from biological ecosystems (e.g. mutualistic networks), industry systems (e.g. New York garment industry) to inter-bank networks (e.g. Fedwire bank network). A nested network has a graph topology such that a vertex’s neighborhood contains the neighborhood of vertices of lower degree. Thus, the adjacency matrix is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Europe and Africa: Addressing the food security challenges (Chapter 6)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Attitudes towards the role of innovation in promoting sustainable agriculture
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
«Embeddedness»: Einbettung von Firmen als Voraussetzung für Nachhaltigkeit
Multinationale Unternehmen, die gerade auch in weniger entwickelten Ländern investieren, sind beliebte Prügelknaben. Ihnen wird unter anderem vorgeworfen, wegen geringerer Regulierung die Umwelt zu verschmutzen, Menschenrechte zu verletzten oder von tieferen Sozialstandards auf Kosten der lokalen Belegschaft zu profitieren. Die Wirklichkeit ist komplexer. Sie zeigt: Multinationale...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2017
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