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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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The gender pay gap in Austria: Tamensi movetur!

Böheim, René; Himpele, Klemens; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2011

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records...

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About time: The narrowing gender wage gap in Austria

Böheim, René; Fink, Marian; Zulehner, Christine - 2019

We examine the gender wage gap in Austria from 2005 to 2017 using data from EU-SILC. The raw wage gap declined from 18.6 log points in 2005 to 14.9 log points in 2017. We use standard decomposition techniques that correct for differences in the distributions of human capital, and other...

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Decomposition of the gender wage gap using the LASSO estimator

Böheim, René; Stöllinger, Philipp - 2020

We use the LASSO estimator to select among a large number of explanatory variables in wage regressions for a decomposition of the gender wage gap. The LASSO selection with a one standard error rule removes about a quarter of the regressors. We use the LASSO-selected regressors for OLSbased...

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Employer provided training in Austria: Productivity, wages and wage inequality

Böheim, René; Schneeweis, Nicole; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2009

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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Choking under pressure: Evidence of the causal effect of audience size on performance

Böheim, René; Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario - 2018

We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the seasons 2007/08 through 2015/16. We exploit the exogenous variation in...

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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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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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