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Migration distance from birthplace and its association with relative income and employment share among heterosexual couples in Switzerland
Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse
Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far par ...
2024The Longhouse
The lecture discussed the longhouse, the linear, long, and narrow habitation typology that existed and still exists in many parts of the world, including South-East Asia, Europe, and North America. While there are numerous scholarly investigations of speci ...
2023What's my Age Again? On the Invention of University Colleges and Student Housing
In the history of education, college represented an alternative to family life. At college, children and adolescents were separated from the care of their parents and integrated into a religious or secular community for their civic or professional educatio ...
2023‘Monsieur, I have a wife and child, a house and a garden, et alors?’
Marshall Plan, officially operated from 1948 to 1952 for reconstruction and development in Europe and non-European countries such as Turkey and Switzerland, marks the Cold War economy-political and foreign policy of the US. Referred by its bureaucrats as “ ...
2023Bed for One: A Queer Interpretation of the Rooming House
Understanding the historical and overlapping complexities related to the queer subject, the single bed, and the emergence of the rooming house, helps frame larger theoretical questions about the neglected, yet contradicting by nature, category of queer dom ...
2023Intrinsic area near the origin for self-similar growth-fragmentations and related random surfaces
We study the behaviour of a natural measure defined on the leaves of the genealogical tree of some branching processes, namely self-similar growth-fragmentation processes. Each particle, or cell, is attributed a positive mass that evolves in continuous tim ...
2022Lie groups as permutation groups: Ulam's problem in the nilpotent case
Ulam asked whether every connected Lie group can be represented on a countable structure. This is known in the linear case. We establish it for the first family of non-linear groups, namely in the nilpotent case. Further context is discussed to illustrate ...
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022Lower-bounds on the Bayesian Risk in Estimation Procedures via f–Divergences
Michael Christoph Gastpar, Adrien Vandenbroucque, Amedeo Roberto Esposito
We consider the problem of parameter estimation in a Bayesian setting and propose a general lower-bound that includes part of the family of f-Divergences. The results are then applied to specific settings of interest and compared to other notable results i ...
2022Analysing the effects of residential mobility behaviours on the composition of personal network in Switzerland
Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Gil Viry
Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between res ...
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