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

Acquirers and Financial Constraints - Theory and Evidence from Emerging Markets

Financial crises in emerging market economies induce diverging patterns of ownership stakes and subsequent divestiture rates among domestic and foreign acquirers. We rationalize these empirical findings in a tractable model where domestic acquirers are sub ...

2021

Credit Supply and the Macroeconomy : An Empirical Analysis of Capital Regulation, Bank Lending, and Firm Behavior

Abhik Mukherjee

The policy response to the recent financial crisis has broadly focused on two themes: 1) Increasing the banking sectorsâ resilience to future financial shocks: 2) Improving credit availability to households and firms via lowering both short and long-term ...

EPFL2016

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

High mobility… to have a job ?

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

Social and spatial mobility is a key value of late modern societies. Necessity to move is linked to flexibility needs of the labour force and more generally is supposed to be a necessary condition for career success. Consequently, increasing numbers of per ...

2014

Public Urban Transport, Mobility Patterns and Social Exclusion : The Case of Santiago de Chile

Regina Witter

What are the social impacts of a new, less efficient public transport system in a city that is known for its inequality concerning access to daily activities and participation in urban life? More precisely, what are the implications of a re-regulated trans ...

EPFL2012