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The experimental setting of Human Mobile Computer Interaction (HCI) studies is moving from the controlled laboratory to the user's daily-life environments, while employing the users' own smartphones. These studies are challenging for both new and expert researchers in human subject studies in the HCI field. Within the last three years, we conducted three different...

Cette contribution a pour objectif d’étudier les processus de transfert de politiques publiques dans le champ du développement et de la lutte contre la pauvreté. À travers l’étude des Conditional Cash Transfers aux Philippines, nous tenterons de montrer comment cette politique, née dans les années 1990 en Amérique latine, a été mise à l’agenda du gouvernement philippin. Nous...

Scholarship has left the study of the consequences of social movements in the background for a long time, focusing instead on movement emergence, characteristics, and dynamics. Since the mid-1970s, however, scholars have paid an increasing interest in how social movements and protest activities may produce change at various levels. The existing literature can be ordered according to...

The abundant literature on welfare state policies, regimes or ‘worlds’ has been only limitedly interested in unemployment protection, and even less in youth unemployment protection. What is clearly lacking in the literature is an updated analysis of the most recent policies developed in European countries targeting youth. This mini-symposium aims to fill in this gap by presenting...

The comparison between France and Switzerland enables us to compare a country that has a strong interventionist tradition in the labour market and whose youth unemployment is endemically high with a more liberal country that is faced with a more recent increase in youth unemployment but which, nevertheless, remains relatively measured. Starting from different rules and values, the...

The problem of non-random sample selectivity often occurs in practice in many different fields. In presence of sample selection, the data appears in the sample according to some selection rule. In these cases, the standard tools designed for complete samples, e.g. ordinary least squares, produce biased results, and hence, methods correcting this bias are needed. In his seminal work,...

The sophisticated and automated means of data collection used by an increasing number of institutions and companies leads to extremely large datasets. Subset selection in regression is essential when a huge number of covariates can potentially explain a response variable of interest. The recent statistical literature has seen an emergence of new selection methods that provide some...