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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 teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of graduates of all Swiss universities for the period of 1981-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity...

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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001

Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...

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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006

We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...

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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?

Schweri, Juerg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...

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Betrachtungen zum Arbeitsmarkt der Lehrer in der Schweiz

Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan; Weber, Bernhard A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 72 (2003) 2, pp. 305-319

Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht anhand von zwei empirischen Studien den Arbeitsmarkt für Lehrkräfte in der Schweiz …. Aufgrund dieser Analysen kann festgestellt werden, dass Universitätsabsolventen1 auch in der Schweiz eine signifikant positive … Lehrerkräfteangebots in der Schweiz aber kleiner als in anderen Ländern. Aufgrund dieses Befunds und der Beobachtung, dass die Löhne der …

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