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Weber Sylvain

Weber Sylvain

Professeur HES associé

Main skills

Economie de l'énergie

Economie du travail

Econométrie

Discrete choice experiments

Stata

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Professeur HES associé

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Haute école de gestion de Genève
Campus Battelle, Rue de la Tambourine 17, 1227 Carouge, CH
HEG-GE
Faculty
Economie et services
Main Degree Programme
Economie d'entreprise
MSc HES-SO en Business Administration - HES-SO Master
  • Forecasting
BSc HES-SO en Economie d'entreprise - Haute école de gestion de Genève
  • Microéconomie 1
  • Macroéconomie 2

Completed

TEXTS (Toitures EXTensives Solaires).
AGP

Role: Co-applicant

Financement: HES-SO Rectorat; 519,Economie d'entreprise; INSIT; Commune de Meyrin; IIDE; hepia inSTI; SIG; Eltel SA; OCAN; Lightswing Solar Sàrl; HEPIA inTNP; HEPIA inTNP

Description du projet : En cet été 2022, les ilots de chaleur urbains se multiplient et les recherches de solutions pour en atténuer les conséquences deviennent impératives. Dans ce contexte, les toitures des bâtiments (environ 20 % des surfaces urbaines) constituent des espaces-clé d'une inéluctable mutation sociétale. Grâce aux projets menés ces dernières années, des toitures solaires végétalisées pilotes ont été développées à Genève. Elles comprennent différents types de panneaux solaires, matériaux recyclés et espèces végétales indigènes. Tirer les enseignements précis de ces réalisations en quantifiant leurs plus-values environnementales, énergétiques et biologiques, leurs coûts et leur acceptabilité sociétale pour permettre leur diffusion, est l'enjeu du projet TEXTS.

Research team within HES-SO: Bollinger Dominique , Coupy Ivan , Weber Sylvain , Steffen Julie , Heiniger Charlène , Prunier Patrice , Pochon Eléonore , Renaud Ewa , Mörch Fabienne , Beringhs Antonin , Ribard Matthïas , Wanzenried Gabrielle

Durée du projet: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023

Montant global du projet: 183'210 CHF

Statut: Completed

2024

DECARB :
Report ArODES
mixes of policy instruments for full decarbonisation by 2050

Fleance Cocker, Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Sylvain Weber

2024,  Berne : Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE),  27 p.

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Summary:

The goal of the DECARB research project is to investigate mixes of policy instruments that would allow Switzerland to respect its climate commitments and reach the net-zero emissions target by 2050. In this context, we focus on energy-related emissions which stem from four sectors, namely: power generation, transport, buildings and industry. We evaluate various policy measures, as well as combinations thereof, along several dimensions relevant to policymakers, including environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and political feasibility. We adopt complementary methods to perform our analyses in this regard. First, we derive lessons on climate policy design from the existing scientific literature. Second, we employ an augmented numerical simulation model to quantify the economic effects of full-decarbonization pathways for Switzerland. Third, we investigate public support for various policy measures by Swiss residents thanks to a stated-preference survey. Our analyses reveal that a strong case can be made for mixes of policy instruments if Switzerland is to reach climate neutrality by 2050. Indeed, once real-world complexities are taken into account, the superiority once granted to carbon pricing as a stand-alone measure to abate greenhouse gas emissions is compromised. Indeed, carefully combining policy instruments has the potential for substantial positive synergies in a number of respects, thereby offering an opportunity to improve climate policy. Importantly, desirable mixes of policy instruments are found to differ across sectors, given the distinct targeted technologies and agents. The corresponding results have been presented at international conferences and resulted in four working papers, to be submitted and eventually published in peer-reviewed journals. The key findings and policy recommendations ensuing from the DECARB research project are provided in the form of three policy briefs

Granger causality in panel datasets :
Book chapter ArODES
relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions

Sylvain Weber, Luciano Lopez

Dans Mukherjee, Deep, Applied econometric analysis using cross section and panel data. Contributions to economics  (39 p.). 2024,  Singapore : Springer

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Summary:

This chapter discusses the concept of Granger causality for panel datasets that are both wide (many individuals) and long (many time periods). Such datasets are obtained for instance when sets of countries are observed over the long run. In such settings, classical issues of time series econometrics, such as (non-)stationarity and (non-)causality, also arise. After a brief theoretical presentation of Granger causality, we provide a complete empirical application using publicly available data from the World Bank and Climate Watch. We investigate Granger causality between economic growth and CO emissions for a set of 130 countries observed over 41 years. The empirical exercise is conducted with the statistical software Stata and is fully reproducible; thanks to the code that is provided. All steps of the analysis are carefully explained and the results are intuitively presented.

2023

Mandat “Impact du salaire minimum” :
Report ArODES
rapport 1/4

Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi, José Ramirez, Sylvain Weber

2023,  Genève : HES-SO Genève ; Université de Genève Genève : HES-SO Genève, Université de Genève,  73 p.

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Summary:

Ce rapport est le premier d’une série de quatre rapports qui visent à analyser les impacts de l’entrée en vigueur du salaire minimum sur le chômage, l’emploi et les salaires dans le canton de Genève. Le calendrier de ces différents rapports est essentiellement dicté par la disponibilité des données qui sont nécessaires pour réaliser les analyses propres à chacune des trois variables cibles. Le présent rapport est composé de trois parties qui peuvent être résumées comme suit. Premièrement, l’analyse de données internes à l’Ocirt-Ocpm sur les demandes de permis de travail par les entreprises montre que la proportion de cas problématiques (dans les-dites demandes) a atteint un pic juste après l’entrée en vigueur du salaire minimum en novembre 2020, pour rapidement redescendre en-dessous de la moyenne historique. En novembre 2022, le taux de cas problématiques n’a jamais été aussi bas depuis 2015. Selon l’analyse effectuée conjointement par l’Ocirt et les partenaires sociaux, les cas problématiques sont dans la majorité des cas associés aux questions salariales. Par conséquent, la tendance négative observée sur la proportion de ces derniers, depuis l’entrée en vigueur du salaire minimum, suggère une bonne assimilation du principe d’un salaire minimum dans l’économie. Deuxièmement, le salaire minimum semble également être bien assimilé par les jeunes du canton, comme le démontre les résultats obtenus à partir d’un sondage réalisé auprès d’un échantillon de personnes âgées de 18 à 25 ans. Près de 9 répondants sur 10 connaissent l’existence du salaire minimum et 6 sur 10 en connaissent même le montant. Ces résultats sont d’une grande importance étant donné que, comme le montre la littérature internationale dans le domaine, les jeunes sont a priori les plus directement concerné-e-s par le salaire minimum. Finalement, l’analyse des données agrégées du chômage (Amstat/SECO) sur la période allant de mai 2018 à avril 2023, montre que l’entrée en vigueur du salaire minimum n’a pas eu d’impact significatif sur le taux de chômage cantonal. Néanmoins, lorsqu’on décompose le taux chômage selon les caractéristiques socio-démographiques des personnes, on observe que : — Le salaire minimum a eu pour effet d’augmenter le taux de chômage des jeunes âgé-e-s de moins de 25 ans. — Le salaire minimum a eu pour effet d’accroître la proportion des jeunes âgé-e-s de moins de 25 ans dans la population de chômeur-se-s comme dans celle des demandeurs d’emploi. Ce résultat traduit le mélange d’effets que l’on peut attendre du salaire minimum sur la demande de travail (les entreprises réduisent ou freinent l’emploi de jeunes) et sur l’offre de travail (davantage de jeunes cherchent un emploi). Ainsi, bien que le taux de chômage des jeunes (comme des moins jeunes) ait globalement diminué durant la période d’observation, l’introduction du salaire minimum a eu pour effet de limiter cette diminution. Autrement dit, sans le salaire minimum, le taux de chômage des jeunes aurait davantage diminué dans le canton de Genève.

Heterogeneity in price elasticity of vehicle kilometers traveled :
Scientific paper ArODES
evidence from micro-level panel data

Ivan Tilov, Sylvain Weber

Energy Economics,  127, 107078

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Summary:

This article presents an empirical estimation of the effect of fuel prices on vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) using a panel dataset of 1560 Swiss households over the period 2018–2021. Elasticities are estimated for different segments of households, based on their socio-demographic and vehicle characteristics, as well as on their driving intensity. Our results, based on fixed-effect, instrumental variable, and quantile regression models, indicate relatively large price elasticities and reveal heterogeneity in price sensitivity. Single-member households appear significantly more responsive to price than multiple-member households. Travel-intensive households do respond to changes in gasoline price, while less intensive drivers do not exhibit statistically significant price elasticities. For household segments who do not react to price, tailored non-price measures would be a useful complement to fuel taxes in order to reduce distance traveled and/or avoid imposing too strong a financial burden.

Carbon taxes
Book chapter ArODES

Andrea Baranzini, Sylvain Weber

Dans Padilla Rosa, Emilio, Ramos-Martín, Elgar encyclopedia of ecological economics  (42–47 pp.). 2023,  Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

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Summary:

A carbon tax is a surcharge on a fuel, product, or service, in proportion to the quantity of carbon embodied or emitted, thereby providing financial incentives to abate emissions. Together with emissions trading systems, carbon taxes are the most widespread economic instruments dedicated to curb CO2 emissions and ultimately mitigate climate change. A central characteristic of carbon taxes is cost-effectiveness: a given amount of emission reductions is achieved at the lowest possible cost. However, carbon taxes raise distributional concerns and face acceptability issues. This entry discusses the functioning of carbon taxes and their main properties.

2022

Motivations for investment in smart technologies and energy efficiency :
Report ArODES
the case of residential buildings

Mehdi Farsi, Martin Jakob, Sylvain Weber, Benedikt Maciosek, Jonas Müller

2022,  Bern : Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE,  98 p.

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Summary:

The objective of this project is to investigate energy-related investment decisions in residential buildings. Different types of potential investor categories are considered: owners of flat, single-family houses (SFH), multi-family houses (MFH), and non-residential buildings (NRB) as well as tenants. A range of energy-related investments is considered, both within energy efficiency, such as insulation or retrofits, and within renewable energy, such as solar panels or heat pumps. We design and implement a series of surveys, in order to collect both real decisions made in the past and stated decisions that would be made in hypothetical situations. Past investment decisions and current situation of building envelope and heating system are collected for a sample of more than 10’000 buildings from 19 Swiss cantons. This allows us to provide a global picture of the evolution of the buildings’ characteristics. We are also able to reveal how the renovation rates and the types of heating systems differ by cantons, geographical characteristics, building characteristics, and owner characteristics. The retrofit rates of the building envelope differ strongly by building element, construction period, and socio-economic characteristics of the owner. Furthermore, energy policy measures such as subsidies and the CO2 tax have a positive effect on the retrofit rates. With regard to heating systems, we note in particular that the development over time is relatively similar between cantons and building types, as oil heating systems in new buildings are gradually being replaced by gas heating systems and, more recently, by heat pumps. However, the absolute levels of the shares of heating system types differ substantially across cantons and building types. Interestingly, it appears that mountainous regions are still heavily equipped with heating oil systems but the shares of heat pumps and wood systems are also above average in these regions. This is explained by the missing grid-bound energy infrastructure (gas and district heating). Thus, gas systems, usually considered as an interesting option to replace heating oil, may in fact prevent a faster transition towards even better and more renewable systems. In order to investigate the motivations for energy-related investments and to analyse preferences and trade-offs between different categories of investments, we rely on discrete choice experiments (DCEs). DCEs belong to the stated preference approaches and offer the possibility to collect information from all residents, not only from those who already invested in energy-related improvements but also from those who have not (yet) invested. This approach also allows us to investigate the impact of new financing options, such as self-consumption communities, and other policy treatments. The main results of the project are based on single family house owners, flat owners and tenants; multi-family house owners are only marginally covered. For flat and SFH owners, we find a general preference for investing in renewable energy as opposed to energy efficiency, with PV standing out as a very attractive choice. Collective investments, self-consumption communities, and crowd funding are generally disliked by investors, which reveals a preference for investing alone or with co-owners in one’s own building but not in larger circles. For SFH owners, the estimated willingness-to-invest is considerable but marginally decreasing with the level of energy saved, which implies that these investors might be reluctant to implement large investments even though they deliver large energy savings. In a second DCE targeting flat/SFH/MFH owners, we investigate the impact of the complexity of energy-related investments and of past experience with these investments. Some respondents to our DCE were offered the possibility to benefit from the support of a hypothetical one-stop shop that would simplify the subsidy application process by centralizing all relevant information and taking care of all the important paperwork. Overall, this simplifying device shows little effect for respondents who did not already experience subsidy application. However, respondents who do have prior investment experience show a slightly but significantly higher propensity to (re-)invest under the simplified regime. Interestingly, experience does not appear to have the same effect for all types of investments. Respondents with experience in PV are more likely (compared to those with no experience) to engage in another investment, whereas those with an experience in envelope insulation do not show any significant difference with those without experience. The last DCE is dedicated to tenants, which constitute the largest group of residents in the Swiss population but is usually discarded from studies on energy-related investment because of their limited possibilities. Considering the emerging forms of investment (crowd funding, self-consumption communities), it is nevertheless becoming possible to invest as a tenant. For this group, like for owners, we observe a general preference for renewable energy as opposed to energy efficiency. Yet, tenants also show a clear aversion against self-consumption communities and crowd investment, which would however constitute the easiest way to contribute to energy-related investments considering their situation. Overall, tenants’ and owners’ preferences therefore do not appear radically different. Overall, our results from the revealed and from the stated decisions complement and reinforce each other on a number of points. First, several personal characteristics are found to affect investment decisions similarly in both analyses: higher education tends to increase investment probabilities, possibly because of its positive impact on earnings, while age has a negative impact, certainly because time horizon is shorter for older people. Second, and unsurprisingly, we find that subsidies induce large investment rates both in reality and in choice experiments, emphasizing the crucial role of such support schemes in the energy transition. Finally, even though we were unable to identify clear impacts of policy treatments in the choice experiment, it seems clear from the real observations that the energy prices and the CO2 levy exert an influence on investment decisions. Higher energy prices and higher taxes lead to more retrofit, which underscores the need to analyze any decision in this area very carefully before implementing it as it may have long-run consequences.

Les effets de la crise sanitaire sur le marché du travail et les inégalités
Book chapter ArODES

Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi, Sylvain Weber

Dans Mimouni, Serge, Rosenstein, Emilie, COVID-19 : les politiques sociales à l'épreuve de la pandémie  (Pp. 57-72). 2022,  Zurich : Seismo

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Travel distance and travel time using Stata :
Scientific paper ArODES
new features and major improvements in georoute

Sylvain Weber, Martin Péclat, August Warren

The Stata journal,  2022, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 89-102

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Summary:

The community-contributed command georoute is designed to calculate travel distance and travel time between two addresses or two geographical points identified by their coordinates. Since its conception and description by Weber and Péclat (2017, Stata Journal 17: 962–971), the command has been gradually maintained and enriched. The new version of georoute presented in this article encompasses major improvements, such as the possibility to specify transport mode and departure time. The new features open the way to a multitude of more sophisticated research applications.

Structural equation modeling as a route to inform sustainable policies :
Scientific paper ArODES
the case of private transportation

Iljana Schubert, Sylvain Weber, Adan L. Martinez-Cruz, Paul Burger, Mehdi Farsi

Frontiers in sustainability,  2022, vol. 3, article no. 837427, pp. 1-16

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Summary:

The availability of big data allows a wide range of predictive analyses that could inform policies for promoting sustainable behaviors. While providing great predictive power, adopted models fall short in explaining the underlying mechanisms of behavior. However, predictive analyses can be enhanced by complementary theory-based inferential analyses, guiding tailored policy design to focus on relevant response mechanisms. This paper illustrates the complementary value of multidisciplinary inferential models in informing large predictive models. We focus on Structural Equation Modeling, an approach suitable for a holistic examination of different pathways and hypotheses from multiple disciplines. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework we develop an empirically tractable model and apply it to a sample of household data from Switzerland. The model focuses on the relationships that delineate the underlying mechanisms for energy consumption behaviors in the case of private transportation. The results are discussed in light of possible contributions to policies aiming at the promotion of sustainable travel behavior as well as data requirements for analyses relying on big data.

Genève est-elle prête pour la prochaine crise ? :
Report ArODES
enseignements tirés de la période Covid

Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi, Sylvain Weber

2022,  Genève : Banque cantonale de Genève SA,  48 p.

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Summary:

La 14e Etude économique publiée par la CCIG et la BCGE, en collaboration avec l’OCSTAT, a pour objectif d’évaluer l’impact de la crise sanitaire sur l’économie genevoise et de formuler des éléments de réflexion permettant d’en tirer des enseignements.

How effective is carbon taxation on residential heating demand? :
Scientific paper ArODES
a household-level analysis

Laurent Ott, Sylvain Weber

Energy policy,  2022, vol. 160 article no. 112698, pp. 1-12

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Summary:

This paper investigates the impact of the Swiss CO2 levy on households' heating demand. Using a difference-in-differences approach combined with inverse probability of treatment weighting, we test whether the 2016 and 2018 carbon tax rate increases had a short-run impact on Swiss households' heating and hot water expenditures—i.e. a proxy for heating consumption. Micro-level data from the Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey are used to estimate the models. Our regression analysis shows that heating consumption decreases with time for all households, but it does not detect any clear short-run impact of the CO2 levy on fossil fuel users in comparison to non-fossil fuel users. We nevertheless find that many factors significantly affect heating consumption, such as setting the thermostat at a lower temperature. Even though further research is needed regarding possible long-run impacts, our findings challenge the relevance of this policy instrument under its current form to lower households’ CO2 emissions. Considering that its rate is regularly increased based on short-run emission targets, households may have too little time to adapt. The tax design might thus need to be revised to take into account the slow reaction time.

2021

L’effet des fluctuations financières sur le nombre de travailleurs frontaliers :
Scientific paper ArODES
une analyse comparative du Luxembourg et de la Suisse

Vincent Fromentin, Joris Michel, Sylvain Weber

Région et développement,  2021, no 53, pp. 51-68

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Summary:

This article features an analysis of the effects of financial fluctuations on crossborder and resident workers in Luxembourg and Switzerland. Causality tests are performed using five variables: the number of cross-border workers, the number of resident workers, stock market indices, financial sector’s value added, and total value added. The results show that, in both countries, cross-border workers face a more volatile evolution and are more strongly and rapidly impacted by “financial instability” than resident workers. These results can be explained by the “cushioning” role of the labor supply (and more particularly of cross-border workers) vis-a-vis financial fluctuations, by labor market segmentation, and by the interrelations between the financial sector and the real economy.

Quelle croissance pour Genève ? :
Report ArODES
le point de vue des entreprises

Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi, Sylvain Weber

2021,  Genève : Université de Genève,  64 p.

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Summary:

Ce rapport présente les résultats d’une enquête menée auprès des entreprises genevoises afin d’étudier le phénomène de la croissance. La croissance (économique) est aujourd’hui un phénomène largement débattu, qui comporte à la fois des facettes bénéfiques (p. ex. augmentation du niveau de vie) mais qui peut également entraîner de sérieux problèmes (pollution et donc changement climatique ainsi qu’inégalités sociales). L’objectif de l’enquête est ainsi d’essayer de comprendre si les entreprises genevoises ont conscience du rôle important qu’elles ont à jouer dans ce domaine et de déterminer leur volonté à contribuer au développement durable de la société.

Le bien-être durable :
Report ArODES
quelle croissance pour Genève ?

Giovanni Ferro Luzzi, Sylvain Weber

2021,  Genève : Université de Genève,  79 p.

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Summary:

Le produit intérieur brut (PIB) ne suffit plus pour mesurer la croissance économique d’une ville ou d’un pays. On cherche désormais à construire des indicateurs de bien-être d’une population, tels que l’IDH (indice de développement humain) et le BNB (bonheur national brut), mais la mesure parfaite n’existe pas.

Beyond political divides: analyzing public opinion on carbon taxation in Switzerland
Book chapter

Ott Laurent, Mehdi Farsi, Weber Sylvain

Dans Franzen Axel, Mader Sebastian,  Research Handbook on Environmental Sociology. 2021,  Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

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2020

Travailleurs frontaliers en Suisse :
Scientific paper ArODES
le hiatus persistant entre recherche et opinion publique

Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi, Vincent Fromentin, Sylvain Weber

Annales des Mines - Réalités industrielles,  2020, no 3, pp. 88-92

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Summary:

Crossborder workers represent a major part of the Swiss labor force : more than 25% of the active population in some cantons. This situation has, of course, created resentment, and Swiss residents often see these wageearners as a threat. According to a public opinion poll, crossborder workers are said to be responsible for serious problems, such as unemployment and wage pressures ‒ in contradiction with the findings of all scientific studies on this topic. Although statistical analyses detect scant or even no effects, their results cover up effects that appear when the statistics are differentiated by level of job qualification : the impact thus turns out to be negative on some workers. A few emblematic cases reported in the media might shape public opinion, but they are not normal.

2019

Travail frontalier et maux du marché du travail :
Book chapter ArODES
le cas suisse

Sylvain Weber, José Ramirez, Giovanni Ferro Luzzi

Dans Pigeron-Piroth, Isabelle, Wille, Christian, Les travailleurs frontaliers au Luxembourg et en Suisse : emploi, quotidien et perception  (Pp. 73-84). 2019,  Luxembourg, Luxembourg : UniGR-Center for border studies

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Summary:

The Swiss labour market is characterised by high wages and low unemployment, attracting many foreign workers, in particular cross-border workers. However, the social acceptance of these workers is mixed, and strong resentment exists against them. Border workers are often held responsible for various ills, such as unemployment or pressure on wages. Our contribution provides a descriptive overview of the situation of cross-border workers in Switzerland, and the development of related legislation. The potential impact of border workers in the destination country is discussed in light of economic theory, and an overview of the empirical literature is then presented. The broad picture that emerges is that the effects of border workers are at best modest. If a causal link between border workers and unemployment exists, it seems to concern mainly the unemployment of border workers being pushed away when unemployment increases.

2018

Quel avenir pour la croissance?
Professional paper ArODES

Giovanni Ferro Luzzi, Sylvain Weber

Entreprise romande le magazine,  2018, no 17, p. 13

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Do cross-border workers cause unemployment in the host country ? :
Scientific paper ArODES
the case of Switzerland

Sylvain Weber, Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi, José Ramirez

Espace populations sociétés,  2018, vol. 2017, no 3, pp. 1-29

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Summary:

Switzerland’s labour market traditionally accommodates many cross-border workers: their number is currently above 300 000, corresponding to almost 7 % of the workforce. Social acceptance of such workers has however deteriorated over the last years, and questions arise over their potential adverse impacts on the local labour market. Using quarterly data over 1996-2017, we investigate the claim that border workers create unemployment among the local labour force, conducting both time-series analyses at the country-level and longitudinal analyses at the canton-level. Our findings indicate that causality runs mainly from unemployment to border workers, the latter being repelled when unemployment increases. The opposite effect, from border workers to unemployment appears to be weaker or even non-existent.

2015

Mondialisation, progrès technique et dépréciation du capital humain :
Scientific paper ArODES
l’impact sur les politiques de formation

Sylvain Weber, Giovanni Ferro Luzzi, José Ramirez

Revue française de pédagogie,  2015, vol. 3, no 192, pp. 11-22

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Summary:

Le capital humain et les politiques visant à sa création et à sa préservation prennent de plus en plus d’importance dans les sociétés industrialisées. Cet article propose un survol de la littérature économique récente dans ce domaine. Le défi majeur qui occupe aujourd’hui le marché du travail est l’accélération du progrès technique, qui s’accompagne d’effets différenciés suivant le niveau de qualification des travailleurs. Deux théories sont évoquées pour analyser ces effets. D’une part, le progrès technique est vu comme biaisé en faveur des travailleurs qualifiés et défavorable aux moins qualifiés. D’autre part, et suite au phénomène de polarisation du marché du travail récemment observé, on peut cependant penser que la technologie est surtout substituable aux emplois du milieu de l’échelle. De ces constatations découlent plusieurs recommandations de politiques économiques, la principale étant de donner aux travailleurs les moyens d’être flexibles et polyvalents, ce qui passe par une éducation relativement générale plutôt que trop spécifique et cantonnée à un secteur ou une profession.

2013

The causal relationship between energy use and economic growth in Switzerland
Scientific paper ArODES

Andrea Baranzini, Sylvain Weber, Markus Bareit, Nicole A. Mathys

Energy economics, 2013, vol. 36, p. 664-470,

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Elasticities of gasoline demand in Switzerland
Scientific paper ArODES

Andrea Baranzini, Sylvain Weber

Energy policy, 2013, vol. 63, p. 674–680,

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2012

Elasticities of gasoline demand in Switzerland
Report ArODES

Andrea Baranzini, Sylvain Weber

Genève : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2012. 15 p. Cahier de recherche No HES-SO/HEG-GE/C--12/1/2--CH

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2009

Élasticité-prix de la demande d’essence en Suisse : rapport final 14 juillet 2009
Professional paper ArODES

Andrea Baranzini, David Neto, Sylvain Weber

Berne : Office fédéral de l’énergie OFEN, programme de recherche Fondements de l'économie énergétique ; Office fédéral de l'environnement OFEV, division Climat, économie, observation de l'environnement, section Climat, 2009. 41 p.,

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Consumers choices among alternative electricity programs in Geneva : an empirical analysis
Scientific paper ArODES

Sylvain Weber, Andrea Baranzini, Emmanuel Fragnière

International journal of global energy issues, 2009, vol. 31, no. 3/4, p. 295-308,

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2008

The demand for football in Switzerland : an empirical estimation
Report ArODES

Andrea Baranzini, José Ramirez, Sylvain Weber

Genève : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2008. 20 p. Cahier de recherche no HES-SO/HEG-GE/C--08/1/1—CH

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2007

Consumers choices among alternative electricity programs in Geneva : an empirical analysis
Report ArODES

Andrea Baranzini, Emmanuel Fragnière, Sylvain Weber

Genève : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2007. 18 p. Cahier de recherche no HES-SO/HEG-GE/C--07/6/1--CH

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2006

A cluster analysis of multidimensional poverty in Switzerland
Report ArODES

Sylvain Weber, Yves Fluckiger, Giovanni Ferro Luzzi

Genève : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2006. 25 p. Cahier de recherche no HES-SO/HEG-GE/C--06/2/1--CH

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Durées de chômage et nationalités : une analyse empirique pour la Suisse
Scientific paper ArODES

Sylvain Weber

Revue suisse d’économie et de statistique, 2006, vol. 142, no 1, p. 147-193,

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Measuring the performance of microfinance institutions
Report ArODES

Sylvain Weber, Giovanni Ferro Luzzi

Genève : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2006. 17 p. Cahier de recherche no HES-SO/HEG-GE/C--06/3/1--CH

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2005

Les durées de chômage en Suisse diffèrent selon la nationalité
Professional paper ArODES

Sylvain Weber, Andrea Baranzini

AGEFI, 5 septembre 2005,

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2023

How do private firms prioritize sustainable development goals (SDGs) ? :
Conference ArODES
evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Sylvain Weber, Giovanni Ferro Luzzi

Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS)

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Summary:

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations have created a new level of social and environmental responsibility for firms. This study uses a survey encompassing a discrete choice experiment to investigate whether private firms are ready to spend in favor of SDGs and which specific SDGs they prefer. The analysis is based on a sample of more than 250 firms located in the canton of Geneva (Switzerland). Our results show that firms have a clear preference towards the environmental dimension (namely SDGs 4, 5, 8, and 10) as opposed to the social dimension (namely SDGs 7, 9, 12, and 13) of sustainable development.

2022

What kind of support do firms need to hire apprentices during recessions?
Conference ArODES

José Ramirez, Sylvain Weber

Proceedings of the First International Leading House Conference on the “Economics of Vocational Education and Training”

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Summary:

Apprenticeship training is strongly developed in Switzerland: at the country level, two thirds of the students follow this educational path at the upper secondary school. That proportion is however substantially smaller in the canton of Geneva, where apprenticeship is only chosen by around one third of the students. During the Covid-19 crisis, training firms moreover faced severe difficulties and a number of them decided not to (or were unable to) hire apprentices or even to terminate their apprenticeship contract(s). To avoid dramatic consequences, authorities from the canton of Geneva introduced a series of measures to support apprenticeship in 2020, among which the following three key measures: (1) reimbursement of the first three months of an apprentice’s salary, (2) bonus of CHF 3,000 for firms who hire a new apprentice, (3) bonus of CHF 10,000 for firms who build a network to jointly hire an apprentice. Using a discrete choice experiment, answered by almost 800 firms, we investigate the firms’ preferences regarding the support measures. Our findings show that the most successful measure is the reimbursement of the apprentices’ wage, regardless of firm’s size.

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