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Social stratification and out-of-school learning

Andersson, Christian; Johansson, Per - 2009

To study effects of out-of-school learning we use data on boarding home pupils who attended elementary public schools in the 1940's. The out-of-school environment at the boarding homes could be considered being more learner friendly than the home environment on average: the pupils at the...

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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process

Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - 2012

We study the recruitment behavior of Swedish employers using data from a stated choice experiment. In the experiment, the employers are first asked to describe an employee who recently and voluntarily left the firm, and then to choose between two hypothetical applicants to invite to a job...

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Provision of public goods in a federalist country: Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

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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Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of hospital performance

Widmer, Philippe K.; Zweifel, Peter; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011

correction in the estimation of hospital performance. …

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Sick of your colleagues' absence?

Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009

We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the...

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Gender differences in shirking: Monitoring or social preferences?

Johansson, Per; Karimi, Arizo; Nilsson, J. Peter - 2014

This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence, we find that also non-treated workers increased their...

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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between the United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence about the relative merits of competing hypotheses. It tips the … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

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How much internalization of nuclear risk through liability insurance?

Schneider, Yves; Zweifel, Peter - 2002

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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Efficient electricity portfolios for the United States and Switzerland: An investor view

Krey, Boris; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

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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