Institut de recherches économiques

2014, Weber, Sylvain, Ferro Luzzi, Giovanni

Using data over 1991–2008 for Switzerland, we investigate job stability through a series of Cox proportional hazards models. Our baseline results show that employment has become less stable for older male workers, with less noticeable change for other groups. However, when destination states are considered in the model, results indicate that younger workers face more transitions towards unemployment than before, whereas older male workers’ greater instability is caused by an increase in transitions to inactivity. It thus appears that the situation of young workers has deteriorated, while the evolution of older men’s job stability is at least partly explained by the increasing number of early retirements. For women, our results are largely consistent with their increasing participation rate and attachment to the labor market.

2014, Blasch, Julia, Farsi, Mehdi

2012, Pecoraro, Marco

2016-3-15, Rime, Bertrand

2007, Farsi, Mehdi, Fetz, Aurelio, Filippini, Massimo

2020, Lanz, Bruno

2019, Kandul, Serhiy, Lang, Ghislaine, Lanz, Bruno

This field experiment quantifies the impact of social norm information on the demand for indoor temperature. Based on high-frequency data from indoor temperature monitors, we provide participating households with a comparison of average temperature in their apartments relative to that measured in a control group. For more than 90 percent of participants, financial benefits of energy savings are only indirect, as building-level heating costs are shared across apartments in proportion to their volume. Despite the associated collective action problem, we estimate that the intervention induces a -0.28 C reduction in average indoor temperature. This suggests that direct monetary incentives is not a pre-requisite for social comparison feedback to induce energy savings.

2004, Farsi, Mehdi, Filippini, Massimo

2011, Widmer, Philippe, Zweifel, Peter, Farsi, Mehdi

2016, Volland, Benjamin