Many countries are forging ahead with convenient balloting methods, in particularelectronic and postal voting, in order to re-engage voters. In this paper, we test whether thecost reductions with postal voting increase turnout. The empirical analysis is based on anewly collected data set on the...

...Zusammengefasst bleiben als Hindernis f¨ur eine Verkn¨upfung der Emissionshandelssystemzum einen der Sanktionsmechanismus der nicht die von der EU geforderte Stringenzerf¨ullt. Eine gesetzliche Anpassung zu mehr Stringenz erscheint politisch einfach durchsetzbar,ohne dabei aber...

In der Vergangenheit wurden Liquiditätsrisiken sowie deren Management durch Wissenschaftund Praxis in stark schwankendem Mass beachtet. In der Regel nimmt ihre Bedeutungund damit auch der Grad der Beachtung in Zeiten wirtschaftlicher Anspannung zu, dasich Liquidität in diesen Situationen...

Applying data from 13 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (1991-2003) I assess costs andbenefits of fixed-term contracts. First, I analyze the existence of a contract related wage gapand the effort response of temporary employees in terms of unpaid overtime hours. Second, Iinvestigate whether...

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the socialsciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeingis often taken as a proxy measure for...

In a series of papers in the 1970s, Camilo Dagum proposed several variants ofa new model for the size distribution of personal income. This Chapter traces thegenesis of the Dagum distributions in applied economics and points out paralleldevelopments in several branches of the applied statistics...

This paper surveys selected applications of the Lorenz curve and related stochasticorders in economics and econometrics, with a bias towards problems in statisticaldistribution theory. These include characterizations of income distributions in termsof families of inequality measures, Lorenz...

The paper addresses two questions. First, is item nonresponse (INR) a precursor of panelattrition (UNR), as predicted by the theory of a latent cooperation continuum, or is theinterrelation of another type? Second, are the results in models of item nonresponse behavioraffected by a selectivity...