Search
Results
-
-
-
-
Do immigrants take or create residents’ jobs?
(2013)KOF Working PapersWe estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of resident employees in Switzerland, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last decade. To address endogeneity of immigration into different labor market cells, we develop new variants of the shift-share instrument, tailored for small-open economies, that exploit only that part in the variation of immigration which can be explained by migration ...Working Paper -
Structural Change, Aggregate Demand and Employment Dynamics in the OECD, 1970– 2010
(2013)KOF Working PapersThe paper combines Baumol’s model of structural change with a model of aggregate demand growth in the Keynesian-Kaleckian tradition to predict the dynamics of aggregate employment. The model for the demand regime is estimated with – and Baumol’s model for the productivity regime is calibrated on – OECD data. The trajectory for employment predicted by the combination of the two models tracks the actual employment dynamics in the OECD over ...Working Paper -
Breaking the curse of dimensionality in sparse polynomial approximation of parametric PDEs
(2013)SAM Research ReportThe numerical approximation of parametric partial differential equations $D(u,y)$ =0 is a computational challenge when the dimension $d$ of the parameter vector $y$ is large, due to the so-called $curse$ $of$ $dimensionality$. It was recently shown in [5, 6] that, for a certain class of elliptic PDEs with diffusion coefficients depending on the parameters in an affine manner, there exist polynomial approximations to the solution map $y$ ...Report -
Technology Transfer within the DEPLOY Project
(2013)Technical Report / ETH Zurich, Department of Computer ScienceThis paper presents our experience of knowledge and technology transfer within the context of the DEPLOY project. In particular, we describe some of the challenges that we faced over the course of the project and the decisions that we made, along with their justification. We also summarise the lessons learned and what we would do differently in future technology transfer projects.Report -
Time-Optimal Online Trajectory Generator for Robotic Manipulators
(2013)This work presents a trajectory generator for time-optimal maneuvering of a robotic manipulator in jointspace. This generator allows to adapt these maneuvers depending on external events received by the robot (e.g. from sensors or human input). Closed-form equations for these trajectories are provided, resulting on a computationally light algorithm which can update the trajectory at any time taking into account the current state of the ...Working Paper -
Are ICT, Workplace Organization and Human Capital Relevant for Innovation?
(2013)KOF Working PapersThis paper investigates the relationship between indicators for the intensity of use of ICT (examining three different types of ICT widely used in firms: internal, e-sales, e-procurement IS), several forms of workplace organization, and human capital on one hand, and several measures of innovation performance at firm level on the other hand, in an innovation equation framework, in which was also controlled for standard innovation determinants ...Working Paper