... labor force survey. We present and discuss the model in this section. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Switzerland Human capital depreciation Educational system Experience-earnings profiles Nonlinear least squares Human capital depreciation, corresponding to the decrease...

... – which in Switzerland corresponds to the local unit or municipality – in order to capture the expected spatial spillovers of network effects due to the presence of entrepreneurs both (1) within and (2) nearby the local units. With regard to point (1), we explicitly account for the self-employment...

... Labour law Trade unions France Switzerland Voice Capabilities Restructuring In the present context of globalized competition, firms are called to constantly adapt to changing conditions of business competitiveness and profitability (Freyssinet, 2006). In line with recent studies (Raveyre, 2005...

... fact, there is almost no study of the factors explaining this concentration. The research starts filling these two gaps. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Migration Location Network effect Autocorrelation Immigrants Switzerland The model we are using is similar...

... a thorough investigation of the role of various factors. There is no other data in Switzerland that allows the investigation of the evolution of labour‐market phenomena over such a long period. Also focuses on different forms of self‐employment, a distinction that has often been overlooked in the literature...

... to a reduction of employment possibilities for outsiders who would have been willing to work during fringe hours. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Working hours Retailing Staff turnover Switzerland Changes in lifestyles and consumers’ needs have reshaped shopping behaviour in most...

...Stefan C. Wolter; Bernhard A. Weber The sudden slump in the labour market of the 1990s made it necessary for Switzerland to alter its labour market policy, which from being almost exclusively passive became an active policy. Indeed a lack of suitable qualifications can be considered as one...

...François Grin; Claudio Sfreddo This paper examines wage rate differentials that set off speakers of Italian (Switzerland’s third national language community) from the rest of the population. Although second language skills are used here as control variables, the focus is on agents’ first language...

... therefore be written as follows: (7) © MCB UP Limited 1998 Discrimination Gender Switzerland Pay The Swiss Labour Force Survey (SAKE) is a nation‐wide, representative, telephonic survey conducted annually by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office since 1991. One of the main...

... a simple measure of inequality, that is the variance of the logarithm of wages. We then apply this method to Swiss data for the years 1991 and 1995. It appears that the greatest contribution to gender wage inequality differences in Switzerland is due to differences in the distributions of unobservable...

...Augustin de Coulon This paper represents an attempt to investigate the assimilation process of immigrants in Switzerland. Some institutional and historical background is first presented, after which we analyse the education profile of the immigrants through four cohorts of arrival. The results tend...

...Jean‐Marc Falter; Yves Flückiger; Jacques Silber This study attempts to analyze the various factors which may have led an individual living in 1995 and 1996 in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, from regular employment to reliance on social welfare via a stage where unemployment benefits...

... hours and that the great majority of these under‐employed women hold a part‐time job. It is worth noticing that the legislation on overtime in Switzerland is relatively flexible in an international comparison (Ehrenberg, 1994). The normal working week is in principle fixed by the individual labour...

...Yves Flückiger This paper presents a general survey of the Swiss economy. It emphasises the various factors that have been put forward to explain the very low unemployment rate recorded in Switzerland up to the beginning of the 1990s. It also analyses the factors which may be held responsible...