Robert E. Leu, Michael Gerfin, Yves Flückiger, Tobias Müller, Carlo Knöpfel, Gebhard Kirchgässner, ...
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
Not available in German. Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative...
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland (2002)
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner
Not available in German. In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of...
Michael Lechner, Michael Gerfin
Das Ziel dieser mikroökonometrischen Studie ist eine Abschätzung der Wirkungen der ar-beitsmarktlichen Massnahmen der Schweiz (AMM) auf die individuellen Erwerbswahrscheinlichkeiten potentieller...
Ökonometrische Evaluation der arbeitsmarktlichen Massnahmen der Schweiz (2000)
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner
Mit der Reform des Arbeitslosenversicherungsgesetzes im Jahre 1996 nahm die Bedeutung der arbeitsmarktlichen Massnahmen (AMM) in der Schweiz stark zu. Die vorliegende Studie ist ein Teilprojekt des...
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner
Studie im Auftrag der Aufsichtskommission für den Ausgleichsfond der Arbeitslosenversicherung, seco Publikation Arbeitsmarktpolitik Nr. 7/2000#### Mit der Reform des...
Zugl.: Sankt Gallen, Hochsch. für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwiss., Diss., 1991.
Michael Gerfin, Martin Schellhorn
We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a doctor visit. We employ nonparametric bounding techniques to minimise...
Gerfin, Michael, Lechner, Michael, Steiger, Heidi
Subsidised employment is one tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual data coming from various...
Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of In-Work Benefits: A Simulation Study for Switzerland
Income support for working low-income families (the 'working poor') is on top of the political agenda in Switzerland. The current social assistance system is considered inadequate to support working...
Lechner, Michael, Gerfin, Michael
"The aim of this microeconometric study is to estimate the effects of the Swiss employment and training measures on the individual employment probabilities of potential participants on the basis of...
Work-Related Training and Wages: An Empirical Analysis for Male Workers in Switzerland
Work-related training is considered to be very important for providing the workforce with the necessary skills for maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the firms and the economy. On the...
A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner
In the late 1990s, Switzerland introduced an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing several programmes. We evaluate their effects on the individual employment probability using...
Wagstaff, Adam, Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Van Der Burg, Hattem, Calonge, Samuel, Christiansen, Terkel, Citoni, Guido, ...
Berufliche Weiterbildung in der Schweiz
Michael Gerfin, Robert E. Leu, Reto Nyffeler
Berufliche Weiterbildung spielt in der modernen Arbeitswelt eine zentrale Rolle bei der Entwicklung der beruflichen Fähigkeiten von Arbeitnehmern und hat daher potentiell grosse Auswirkungen auf...
Work-related training is considered to be very important for providing the workforce with the necessary skills for maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the firms and the economy....
Work-Related Training and Wages: An empirical analysis for male workers in Switzerland
Work-related training is considered to be very important for providing the workforce with the necessary skills for maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the firms and the economy. On the...
Income support for working low income families (the "working poor") is on top of the political agenda in Switzerland. The current social assistance system is considered inadequate to support working...
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the reemployment chances of the unemployed. Using unusually informative individual data from administrative...
Michael Gerfin, Martin Schellhorn
We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a doctor visit. We employ nonparametric bounding techniques to minimise...
Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US
Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Wagstaff, Adam, Van Der Burg, Hattem, Christiansen, Terkel, De Graeve, Diana, Duchesne, Inge, ...
Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons
Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Wagstaff, Adam, Bleichrodt, Han, Calonge, Samuel, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Gerfin, Michael, ...
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Gerfin, Michael, Lechner, Michael
In the second part of the 1990’s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the...
Gerfin, Michael, Lechner, Michael, Steiger, Heidi
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data we...
Gerfin, Michael, Leu, Robert E.
Income support for working low income families (the “working poor”) is on top of the political agenda in Switzerland. The current social assistance system is considered inadequate to support...
Firm-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland
According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical...
This paper compares the familiar probit model with three semiparametric estimators of binary response models in an application to labour market participation of married women. This exercise is...
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data we...
A Microeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Gerfin, Michael, Lechner, Michael
In the second half of the 1990s Switzerland introduced an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on individual...
Gerfin, Michael, Lechner, Michael, Stieger, Heidi
Subsidized employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data, we...
Inequality Trends in the Swiss Income Distribution
Carol Ernst, Michael Gerfin, Robert E. Leu
As in many countries income inequality in Switzerland has increased between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. This paper applies decomposition methods in order to identify potential causes for...
Using the Swiss Labour Force Survey panel data I estimate a dynamic probit model of female labour market participation. The model is estimated with several specifications of the covariance matrix of...
Dorothé Bonjour, Michael Gerfin
In order to analyze the earnings differential between women and men DlEKMANN and ENGELHARDT (1995) estimate income functions using hours worked as an exogenous explanatory variable. Their model is...
This paper illustrates the use of nonparametric estimation techniques in the analysis of income distribution and income inequality with focus on identifying life cycle effects. I consider kernel...
Female Labor Supply, Income Taxes and Hours Restrictions - An empirical analysis for Switzerland
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Dorothe Bonjour, Michael Gerfin
In this paper we analyze the distribution of the gender wage gap. Using microdata for Switzerland we estimate conditional wage distribution functions and find that the total wage gap and its...
Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer
Feess, Eberhard, Gerfin, Michael, Muehlheusser, Gerd
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some...
Bütikofer, Aline, Gerfin, Michael
How large are the economies of scale of living together? And how do partners share their resources? The first question is usually answered by equivalence scales. Traditional estimation and...
Aline Bütikofer, Michael Gerfin
How large are the economies of scale of living together? And how do partners share their resources? The first question is usually answered by equivalence scales. Traditional estimation and...