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Hire fast, fire slow: the employment benefits of energy transitions

Marc Vielle, Vincent Moreau, François Richard Vuille, Yann Füllemann

The transition towards decarbonized and efficient energy systems has broad socio-economic implications. We estimate the potential impacts on employment from efforts in energy efficiency in industry, transport and buildings as well as substituting local ren ...

2019

Going work-related high mobile in Santiago, a question of conciliation? Investigating long-duration commute through hybrid choice modelling

Pauline Geneviève Thérèse Hosotte

Santiago de Chile has had to face a renewed wave of urban migration in the past few decades, placing mobility at the centre of many concerns. Whether social, economic or environmental, the impacts of mobility behaviour require further investigation, in ord ...

2018

The European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has introduced a price for carbon, thus generating an additional cost for companies that are regulated by the scheme. The objective of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the effect of the EU ETS on ...

SPRINGER2018

A regional resource flow model for promoting a circular economy at the regional level

A regional resource flow model is applicable for examining the resource efficiency at a regional level and at different scales varying from regions to urban areas and also smaller local development project areas. The Jyväskylä region has been the first in ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

What are the impacts of an energy transition and green policies on employments? To answer this question, two approaches are widely used in the literature: Input-Output (IO) analysis and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models. While I-O analysis is a s ...

2017

Essays in Bank Financing

Yalda Sigrist

This thesis examines the optimal mode of financing for banks and financial institutions. The first chapter, which is a joint work with Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet, investigates how Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) should be financed. The ...

EPFL2017

Self-employment, start-up incentives and political ideology

Marianna Marino, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

We find evidence that public start-up incentives promote self-employment. This public policy seems to affect more women than men. ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Job-related “high mobility” in times of economic crisis: Analysis from four European countries

Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Stéphanie Vincent, Yann Francis Eric Dubois

Social and spatial mobility is a core value of late modern societies. Increasing numbers of people are practicing work-related high mobility, such as daily or weekly long-distance commuting and frequent work-related travel. In this article we propose to ex ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

A revealed preference analysis of PhD students’ choices over employment outcomes

Fabiana Visentin, Annamaria Conti

We develop a revealed preference approach to elicit science and engineering PhDs’ preferences over employment outcomes, exploiting cohort size variations. Depending on whether pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards are sticky or not, increments in the PhDs’ c ...

Elsevier2015

Energy needs at the global level are gigantic and steadily increasing while the need to reduce carbon emissions is vital if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. In the Global South, a large part of the population still lacks access to energy, whic ...

Springer International Publishing2015