This article presents a microeconometric model of the social contributions collected by the Swiss Old Age and Survivors Insurance scheme (AHV-AVS), as well as an application to the evaluation of the amount of contributions for the period 1995-2040. The model is made up of three main components....

The aim of this paper is to understand why the unemployment rate in Geneva is higher than in the rest of Switzerland. In order to explain the differences of cantonal unemployment rates, we use an approach based on the analysis of inflow and outflow rates into and from unemployment and the...

This paper discusses first various ways of measuring unemployment and, borrowing ideas from the poverty measurement literature, proposes four more general unemployment indices which are parallel to the Sen poverty index, to its generalization by Shorrocks, to the FGT and to the Watts poverty...