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  1. This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective and objective measures of health of workers over 50 using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey ...

    Authors: Justina A. V. Fischer and Alfonso Sousa-Poza
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2008 144:BF03399260
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  2. Our paper investigates the geographical distribution of physicians across the Swiss cantons over the years 1960 to 2005. We use a physician location model relating physician growth in a canton related to (i) t...

    Authors: Gabrielle Wanzenried and Sandra Nocera
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2008 144:BF03399254
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  5. Based on a relative entropy approach, this paper proposes a method to estimate or update transition matrices using just cross-sectional observations at two points in time. The method is then applied to explain...

    Authors: Robert Aebi, Klaus Neusser and Peter Steiner
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2008 144:BF03399251
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  7. We examine whether Swiss federal fiscal policy was sustainable over the period from 1900 to 2002. We perform unit root and cointegration tests for federal revenues and expenditures, taking into account a struc...

    Authors: Gebhard Kirchgässner and Silika Prohl
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2008 144:BF03399249
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  8. We develop an industry specific model of price competition with product differentiation to analyze the effect of entry regulation on process innovation in the Swiss mail industry. We consider the four most pro...

    Authors: Helmut M. Dietl, Andreas Grütter, Martin Lutzenberger, Cátia Felisberto and Matthias Finger
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2008 144:BF03399248
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  9. The four risk factors controlling for the market, size, value, and momentum effect have become a state-of-the-art framework for various applications in financial markets research. However, previous work shows ...

    Authors: Manuel Ammann and Michael Steiner
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2008 144:BF03399247
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  14. We use panel data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to estimate age-earnings profiles as well as transitory and permanent income shock variances for investor groups distinguished by gender, education and activ...

    Authors: Florian Zainhofer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399238
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  15. In this analysis, the informational content of central bank rhetoric is assessed based on the experience with the ECB since 1999. Among the ECB’s communication channels we focus on the monthly press conference...

    Authors: Friedrich Heinemann and Katrin Ullrich
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399237
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  16. We analyze the completed highest education degree of four ten-year birth cohorts between 1934 and 1973 in Switzerland, using data from the Swiss Household Panel 1999–2004. As expected, the fraction of tertiary...

    Authors: Alejandra Cattaneo, Sandra Hanslin and Rainer Winkelmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399236
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  17. Market data, such as bond spreads or equity price volatility, are a complementary source to bank supervisory information. In Switzerland, meaningful market data are available for a number of banks which consti...

    Authors: Urs W. Birchler and Matteo Facchinetti
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399235
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  18. We construct a quarterly time series for nominal hourly wages and unit labour costs from 1975 onwards and investigate the empirical link between wages and CPI inflation in Switzerland in order to identify caus...

    Authors: Attilio Zanetti
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399234
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  20. This paper investigates the technical efficiency differences of a sample of regional employment offices (REOs) across Swiss cantons. Regular job-search assistance, registration and matching of unemployed worke...

    Authors: José V. Ramirez and Anatoli Vassiliev
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399232
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  23. Monetary aggregates have historically been important in Swiss monetary policy. The Swiss National Bank used money growth targets until 1999. The new policy framework introduced in 2000 focuses on an inflation ...

    Authors: Petra Gerlach-Kristen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399245
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  24. On January 1, 2005, Switzerland reduced the legal level of blood-alcohol concentration while driving from 0.8‰ to 0.5‰. This happend on basis of the assumption that more restrictive per mil levels increase roa...

    Authors: Thomas Gautschi, Dominik Hangartner and Aline Bütikofer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399244
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