measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes …

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment …

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

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data …. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' wealth and their grandchildren's educational … achievement. Doing so allows us to reliably establish the independent role of wealth in contributing to long-term inequalities in …

between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …

wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …

kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using … significantly larger liquid wealth than men and young singles. …