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Models of citizenship, political opportunities, and the claim-making of immigrants and ethnic minorities: A comparison of France and Switzerland
In this paper we discuss the institutional setting, both cultural and political, for the claim-making of immigrants and ethnic minorities and derive a number of hypotheses regarding variations in the extent, forms, and content of claim-making. The general underlying idea is that the political-institutional setting shapes the modalities of claim-making, while the cultural-…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Jurisprudence sur la résiliation du contrat de travail
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1999
La protection des données dans les rapports de travail
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1999
Le cinquantenaire de l'assurance-vieillesse et survivants suisse
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1999
Quelle place pour la sécurité sociale en Europe? : une approche générale
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1999
Les mouvements sociaux: structures, processus et conséquences
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1999
Regulatory reform of telecommunications in Switzerland
National policies towards the regulation of the telecommunications industry have undergone significant change in response to technological progress and increasing competition. This article discusses the consecutive revisions of the Swiss regulatory framework during the 1990's and presents lessons to be drawn from this process. After reviewing the Telecommunications Act (…
Institution partenaire
English / 31/12/1998
Changing places—the role of heterogeneity and externalities in cumulative processes
We consider a simple class of dynamic games. A continuum of players chooses between two actions (“locations”) in each period; per-period payoffs depend positively on the number of players choosing the same action. The resulting dynamics are investigated. If one location receives a favorable shock, the effects of the strength of externalities and the heterogeneity of the population on…
Institution partenaire
English / 23/12/1998
Tariffs, quotas and terms-of-trade: the case of New Zealand
This paper reports quantitative information on the effects of tariffs and quotas on prices of individual goods. The analyses uses the natural experiment provided by a comprehensive unilateral trade policy reform in New Zealand to examine the response of foreign exporters to an incident of liberalisation that is unique in the developed world. The price effects of tariffs and quotas…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/12/1998
Pareto-Verbesserungen in der Sozialversicherung durch Selbstselektion ihrer Mitglieder
In der Sozialversicherung gelten Risikoselektionen als unerwuenscht, weil sie die Gefahr mit sich bringen, dass der einheitliche Risikopool in der Sozialversicherung aufgespalten und die sozialpolitisch gewuenschten Umverteilungsstroeme zwischen den Versicherten reduziert werden. Der Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel der sozialen Krankenversicherung in der Schweiz und der Bundesrepublik…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/1998
Environmental Regulations and Managerial Myopia
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/1998
Is job stability declining in Germany? Evidence from Count Data Models
The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early 1970s suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined between 1974 and 1994. Using count data regression models in which we control for labour market…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/1998
The Estimation of an Average Cost Frontier to Calculate Benchmark Tariffs for Electricity Distribution
In this paper we have examined the scale and cost inefficiency of a sample of Swiss electricity distribution utilities. To do so, we have considered estimation of a stochastic frontier average cost model using the approach suggested by Schmidt and Sickles (1984) for panel data. A translog cost function was estimated using panel data for a sample of 30 municipal utilities over the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/1998
Getting Out of Debt: Attachment of wage in whose interest?
Attachment of wage as a way for creditors to enforce payment by unwilling or insolvent debtors is not very successful in several countries. Based on a dynamic model of debtor behaviour, this paper explores two alternatives of reform. One is to reduce the rate of attachment, which at present amounts to 100 percent of the wage income exceeding the subsistence level, thus probably…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/1998
Neue Aufschlüsse über die Elektrizitätsnachfrage der schweizerischen Haushalte
Die vorliegende Untersuchung wurde ermöglicht durch das vom Bundesamt für Energiewirtschaft finanzierte Projekt „Auswirkungen einer grenzkostenorientierten Tarifrevision auf die Elektrizitätsnachfrage“. Wir danken dem Bundesamt für Energiewirtschaft, dem Bundesamt für Statistik sowie den Elektrizitätswerken der Städte Zürich, Bern und Basel für die tatkräftige Unterstützung des…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/03/1998
Dynamische Finanzierungsstrategien - Herausforderungen an das quantitative Management
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 23/02/1998
Posterior simulation and Bayes factors in panel count data models
This paper is concerned with the problems of posterior simulation and model choice for Poisson panel data models with multiple random effects. Efficient algorithms based on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for sampling the posterior distribution are developed. A new parameterization of the random effects and fixed effects is proposed and compared with a parameterization in common use…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
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