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Okun's Law postulates a stable relationship between quarterly output growth and changes in (un)employment. This … extending the analysis to industry data from Switzerland, applying a method suggested by the International Monetary Fund … to earlier on. This does not seem to be the case in Switzerland, except in the construction industry. …
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The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that … ; Beschäftigung ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Schweiz … unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even in favourable economic conditions, is on an increasing trend. This …
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This paper provides novel evidence on downward nominal wage rigidities and their allocative effects in Switzerland. We … employment income (-0.97%), as well as an increase of unemployment (2.11%). …
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The average unemployment rate in Europe has been consistently higher than in the United States since 1980. The main …
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rich countries: New Zealand and Switzerland. We briefly discuss Kehoe/Prescott's definition of a "great depression … perform sensitivity tests with respect to alternative operationalisations for Switzerland and the U.S. It is shown that with …-performing Switzerland reduces considerably. Yet, this still does not explain the comparatively poor economic growth in Switzerland during …
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In order to correct the bias due to unit non-response for the KOF ETH Zurich's business (mail) surveys, we usually use the results of a second (phone) survey by the non-respondents. Taking the case of the survey 2000 on "Organization and Information Technologies" in the Swiss economy, we...
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The paper investigates empirically the decision of firms to adopt Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on a comprehensive specification of a "rank model" of technology adoption (complemented by "epidemic effects") using firm-level data for the Swiss business sector. The...
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The aim of this paper is, firstly, to contribute to the understanding of innovation patterns in services. To this end, firms which are similar in terms of a large set of innovation indicators were grouped into clusters. For the Swiss case, it was possible to identify five clusters which exhibit...
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