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Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva
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In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious worker ...
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2023Essays in Financial Economics
This thesis consists of two chapters that study separate subjects in the area of corporate finance.The first chapter, titled âEconomic Gains in Bank Mergers and Acquisitions â Evidence from Targetsâ, investigates economic gains in bank mergers and ac ...
EPFL2022On the radar: Predicting near-future surges in skills’ hiring demand to provide early warning to educators
Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Ramtin Yazdanian
The AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic have one important thing in common: they both have caused significant and rapid changes to the skill set landscape of various industries. These disruptive forces mean that the early ident ...
2021Monopsony with nominal rigidities: An inverted Phillips Curve
With nominal wage rigidities, it is crucial to distinguish whether wages are set by workers or firms — whether we have monopoly or monopsony power. This paper provides a model of monopsony power in the labour market and a monopsonistic Phillips Curve. If w ...
2020Monopsony, Wage Bargaining and the Phillips Curve
With nominal wage rigidities, it is crucial to distinguish whether wages are set by workers or firms -- whether we have monopoly or monopsony power. This paper provides a model of wage bargaining in the labour market where workers have monopoly power over ...
2020Understanding the Social Implications of the Digital Transformation: Insights from Four Case Studies on the Role of Social Innovation to Foster Resilience of Society, Electronic Participation
Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca
This paper advances further the analysis of previous exploratory research conducted by the authors on how social innovation can foster resilience in a digital governance context. The process of innovation in social policy, as well as the building of resili ...
Springer2018Professional cyclic high mobility: modelling state transitions
Michel Bierlaire, Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Alexis Gumy, Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent
This paper aims to investigate the combination of exogenous and dynamic endogenous variables in professional high mobility patterns. It is based on a panel dataset of the Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe research project conducted between 2007 and ...
2017High mobility over the life course: evidence from a longitudinal study in Europe
Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Gil Viry
Commuting and travelling extensively for job reasons both helps and challenges people to balance competing demands of work and personal life. People do not have equal resources and possibilities to benefit from high mobility. Globalisation, labour flexibil ...
2015Double-dividend analysis with SCREEN : an empirical study for Switzerland
This paper presents an empirical study that quantifies the effects of an ecological fiscal reform as recently rejected by the Swiss population. The measure aims to encourage employment and, at the same time, to dissuade from an excessive energy use and the ...
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