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Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale administrative data, I exploit exogenous variation in unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find...
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using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …
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Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...
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This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...
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education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and …
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magazine to gain new insights on the structure and dynamics of top wealth in Switzerland. Using this data allows us study the … super-rich in Switzerland in ways that were not possible in previous research based largely on tax data. In addition to … literature. First, we present a number of new facts on the wealth elite in Switzerland. We show that about 60% of the super …
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end, Switzerland provides for a laboratory as its 26 cantons share a common framework, while the extent of federalism …
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We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk sharing whereby bonus pay partially absorbs earnings shocks....
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setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce …
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elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …
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