The rapid increase in unemployment at the beginning of the nineties in Switzerland has led to the introduction of a whole range of active labor market programs that should help the jobseekers to find a new job. In this paper we are analyzing the internal dynamics of unemployment by means of an...

Poverty analysis often results in the computation of poverty indexes based on so-called poverty lines which can be region specific poverty lines. The poverty lines are made of two components, namely the amount of income to satisfy the food and the non food needs. For both components, one needs...

Expected Utility Theory (EUT) underlies the Standard Gamble (SG) method for eliciting people's preferences towards safety policy and risky treatments. Increasingly surveys using this method decompose the SG questions into two or more intermediate questions. Under the EUT assumption of procedural...

In this article we develop a new technique of data analysis applied to three dimensionnal tables. The main goal of that method is to describe the evolution of the statistical units with respect to the time. Inspired by the generalized principal components analysis, canonical analysis and...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the consequences of the reform of the local enterprise tax on labour supply. The purpose of this reform is to increase labour supply by exempting wages from the tax. Results show that the effects of the reform crucially depend on factor substitution...

Effect-oriented politics shifts the emphasis from controlling the input (deployment of staff and financial resources) to controlling the outcome (products and effects) of government action. Increasingly, politicians are applying results-oriented standards and setting performance targets and...

It was a first order media event when at the end of last year the UMTS concessions for the Swiss market were sold for 205 million Swiss francs. The result lagged massively behind the "several billion" francs that had been expected, based on the results of similar auctions abroad. In this paper I...

The theory on the credit channel of monetary transmission emphasizes the role of the banking system in propagating monetary shocks. In this paper we test whether, following the abrupt tightening of the Swiss National Bank at the end of the 80s, the investment cycle in the Swiss economy was...

This article presents the solutions brought by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) by establishing the Social Protection Accounts as well as the main results obtained thanks to this new tool for statistical analysis. The Social Accounts, namely the synthesis of the statistical data...

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