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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
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correction in the estimation of hospital performance. …
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We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on...
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Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re-luctance to choose technical occupations, although the foundations for career choices are certainly laid earlier, during education. Educational experts claim that female students are doing better in math and science and are...
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In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …
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We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...
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An important source of conflict surrounding nuclear energy is that with a very small probability, a large-scale nuclear accident may occur. One way to internalize the associated financial risks is through mandating nuclear operators to have liability insurance. This paper presents estimates of...
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the United States and Switzerland, adopting an investor point of view. Expected returns are defined by the rate of …, and Solar in the case of Switzerland, a country without domestic supplies of fossil fuels. Since shocks in generation … costs are found to be correlated, Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) is used to filter out the systematic …
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Switzerland and the United States. Expected returns are given by the (negative of the) rate of increase of power generation cost … Nuclear, Run of river, Storage hydro and Solar in the case of Switzerland, and Coal, Nuclear, Gas, Oil, and Wind in the case … estimation (SURE) method is applied for filtering out the systematic component of the covariance matrix of the cost changes …
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