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Transitivity and couple relationship satisfaction: Sharing and visiting friends and family make the difference

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

This study examined the relationship between couple relationship satisfaction and the transitivity of ties with family and friends within couples, i.e., the tendency of partners to share friends and family. In this case, transitivity was measured by using ...

2025

Implementation gaps in cross-border co-operation: evidence from the regional train network in Greater Geneva

Vincent Kaufmann, Alexis Gumy

The Léman Express (LEx) is Europe's largest cross-border rail network. As the backbone of public transportation that connects Geneva with its French suburbs, the LEx should contribute to increasing sustainable mobility and to achieving the 2050 carbon neut ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Motility as a mediating variable in the influence of environmental concern on mobility habits

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier

This study employs a second-order structural model (SEM) to conduct a mediation analysis, with the objective of elucidating the intricate relationship between environmental concerns and daily mobility habits. The mediation variable used is motility, define ...

Elsevier BV2024

Mesures d’accompagnement du Léman Express: les enseignements d’un audit transfrontalier

Vincent Kaufmann, Alexis Gumy

Quatre ans après le lancement du Léman Express, de nombreuses mesures d’accompagnement visant à favoriser l’utilisation des transports publics et la mobilité douce ont pris du retard. Un audit transfrontalier fait le point sur la situation et émet des reco ...

2024

Etude sur l'impact du secteur international à Genève

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy

Fondation pour Genève2024

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 ...

2024

Can Spatial Proximity to Another Country Drive Short-distance Transnationalism? Evidence from Social Ties in Three European Border Regions

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

This article draws inspiration from social network analysis (SNA) to investigate the impact of spatial proximity on the geography of strong social ties in three European border regions. We consider cross-border friendship and kinship as a measure of shortd ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions

Alexis Gumy, Ander Audikana Arriola, Garance Clément

Cross-border regions are seen as specific spaces where both cosmopolitanism and nationalistic attitudes can spread. It is commonly argued that due to the physical proximity to a neighbouring country, the development of cross-border encounters and interacti ...

2023

La mécanique sociale des mobilités. Enquête sur les inégalités de déplacements quotidiens dans trois espaces frontaliers européens

Alexis Gumy

At the crossroads of transportation engineering and urban sociology, the dissertation deciphers the interactions between daily mobility and social inequalities, what I call the "social mechanics of mobility". To do so, I draw on a twofold survey, both quan ...

EPFL2023

Sociétés frontalières

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Ander Audikana Arriola, Garance Clément, Laurie Daffe

Ces dernières années en Europe, le durcissement des politiques migratoires, le Brexit, la pandémie de COVID-19 et la guerre en Ukraine ont contribué à renforcer la tension entre liberté de circuler et contrôles aux frontières. Ces grandes dynamiques tenden ...

EPFL Press2023