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Performance pay, sorting, and outsourcing

Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - 2007

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms …, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the …

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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003

In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for … to the fact that teachers? salaries are generally high in Switzerland - teachers here enjoy a positive wage differential …

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Does Subsidised Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes

Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael; Steiger, Heidi - 2002

schemes of subsidised temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment …

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Exploiting regional treatment intensity for the evaluation of labour market policies

Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2006

We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in programme...

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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

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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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and …

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Work to live or live to work? Unemployment, happiness, and culture

Krause, Annabelle - 2011

by cultural background. To test the hypothesis of a 'Teutonic work ethic', this paper takes advantage of Switzerland in … significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …

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The value of a statistical injury: new evidence from the Swiss labor market

Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - 2009

We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within …

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The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China

Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xun; Liu, Yuehua; Zhao, Xintong; Chen, Xi - 2022

program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV) approach uses thermal inversion to address potential endogeneity in PM …

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Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China

Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2016

This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching … interviews in China, we are able to estimate the relationship between local concentration of particulate matter and individual …

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