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The proliferation of social entrepreneurship narratives being broadcasted on television and published in newspapers, practitioner books and scientific journals epitomizes one of the very latest fashion trends that has penetrated researchers', politicians', and journalists' discourse in equal measure. It is thus noticeable…

Dans ce papier, nous utilisons une base de données d’environ 3’000 entreprises (et env. 160'000 salarié-es) implantées en Suisse pour analyser l’impact de l’activité d’exportation sur la dispersion des salaires. Premièrement, nous estimons des fonctions de salaires qui tiennent compte tant des caractéristiques des entreprises que de celles des employé-es. Dans un deuxième temps…

Over the last 30 years, trends such as service sector growth, welfare state expansion and rising female participation rates have promoted increasing heterogeneity within the occupational system. Accordingly, this article argues that the class map has to be redrawn in order to grasp these changes in the employment structure. For that purpose, it develops the bases of a new class…

Does direct democracy tend to endanger or to protect minorities in multicultural countries? The response to this question has been controversial. Some scholars believe that direct democracy may result in “disregard of basic minority rights”; others think that it “serves to protect minorities”. This paper explores the experience of Switzerland, a longstanding multilingual democracy…

It is common in econometric applications that several hypothesis tests are carried out at the same time. The problem then becomes how to decide whichnhypotheses to reject, accounting for the multitude of tests.nThe classical approach is to control the familywise error rate (FWE), that is, thenprobability of one or more false rejections. But when thennumber of hypotheses under…

"Multilevel or mixed effects models are commonly applied to hierarchical data; for example,nsee Goldstein (2003), Raudenbush and Bryk (2002), and Laird and Ware (1982). Although therenexist many outputs from such an analysis, the level-2 residuals, otherwise known as randomneffects, are often of both substantive and diagnostic interest. Substantively, they are frequently used…

Recruiters infer personal traits from job applicants' resumés and use these inferences in evaluating job applicants' employability. No research to date, however, has determined if resumé reviewers' inferences of applicants' personality drawn solely from resumé biographical data are valid. In the present study, resumé reviewers (N=52) examined one of two applicant…