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Migration distance from birthplace and its association with relative income and employment share among heterosexual couples in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Gil Viry, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far par ...

2024

Entre droit et injonction à la mobilité : discussion d'une 'motilité' "raisonnable" comme ressource pour l'insertion professionnelle

Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier

In many countries, payment of unemployment benefit is conditional on active job-seeking on the part of recipients, who are required to accept any "reasonable" job offers made to them (Dalloz 2008). In France, this notion of "Reasonable Job Offer" (ORE) has ...

EPFL2024

FROM GROUP WORK TO TEAM WORK: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN THREE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Isabelle Jeanne Lydie Lermigeaux-Sarrade

Addressing the complex challenges of sustainability demands for good teamwork abilities for future technicians and engineers. In our three institutions we adopted project-based learning to facilitate the development of these skills – but is this enough? Si ...

2023

Activities, Housing Situation and Other Factors Influencing Psychological Strain Experienced During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Ralph Hansmann, Garance Clément

Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and the corresponding first nationwide lockdown from mid-March to 10 May 2020 engendered considerable psychological strain among people in Switzerland. This study analyzes determinants of changes i ...

Frontiers Media2021

Decoding Cognitive States under Varying Difficulty Levels

Ping-Keng Jao

Understanding cognitive states of human under different difficulty levels is useful in improving human-human and human-machine interactions. For example, a crucial factor in designing games is maintaining the engagement of players. An ideal scenario would ...

EPFL2020

Beyond R&D: the role of embodied technological change in affecting employment

Gabriele Pellegrino

In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast ...

SPRINGER2019

MedCo: Enabling Secure and Privacy-Preserving Exploration of Distributed Clinical and Genomic Data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Jean Louis Raisaro, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Mickaël Misbach

The increasing number of health-data breaches is creating a complicated environment for medical-data sharing and, consequently, for medical progress. Therefore, the development of new solutions that can reassure clinical sites by enabling privacy-preservin ...

2019

The Impact of the European Emission Trading Scheme on Multiple Measures of Economic Performance

Marianna Marino, Claudia Pellegrin

The European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has introduced a price for carbon, thus generating an additional cost for companies that are regulated by the scheme. The objective of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the effect of the EU ETS on ...

SPRINGER2018

Self-employment, start-up incentives and political ideology

Marianna Marino, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

We find evidence that public start-up incentives promote self-employment. This public policy seems to affect more women than men. ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Job-related “high mobility” in times of economic crisis: Analysis from four European countries

Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Stéphanie Vincent, Yann Francis Eric Dubois

Social and spatial mobility is a core value of late modern societies. Increasing numbers of people are practicing work-related high mobility, such as daily or weekly long-distance commuting and frequent work-related travel. In this article we propose to ex ...

2017

A revealed preference analysis of PhD students’ choices over employment outcomes

Annamaria Conti, Fabiana Visentin

We develop a revealed preference approach to elicit science and engineering PhDs’ preferences over employment outcomes, exploiting cohort size variations. Depending on whether pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards are sticky or not, increments in the PhDs’ c ...

Elsevier2015

Simultaneous Modeling of Endogenous Influence of Urban Form and Public Transit Accessibility on Distance Traveled

Laetitia Bettex

This paper describes an attempt to understand better the endogenous relationships between urban form, accessibility to public transit, and daily travel distance. A model of two simultaneous equations was implemented. The model took into account the interac ...

National Academy of Sciences2011

Individual and Opportunity Factors Influencing Job Creation in New Firms

Marc Gruber

We build on multiple theoretical perspectives to investigate the unique and joint effects of individual- and opportunity-level factors affecting job creation in new firms. We tested hypotheses using survey data from individuals who transitioned from unempl ...

Academy of Management2009