We investigate the medium-term effects of the coronavirus-related school closures in Switzerland on students’ self-perceived risk of school failure. We test whether these affected students differently depending on their families’ socioeconomic resources. We draw on a sample of students aged 14 to 25 from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and find no medium-term change in students’ risk of school failure due to the school closures. This finding did not vary by family socioeconomic background.

Des acteurs créent des monnaies locales comme outil pour favoriser une économie locale et respectueuse de l’environnement. Mais la structuration d’un réseau d’utilisateurs va bien au-delà du lancement d’un moyen de paiement alternatif. Basé sur une étude de cas de la monnaie Léman en Suisse, , cet article mobilise le concept de circuit de commerce introduit par Viviana Zelizer et évalue sa pertinence pour caractériser les monnaies locales associatives. L’analyse permet de mieux comprendre les spécificités et les défis de ce type de circuit de commerce.

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the factors motivating transnational mobility in four categories of older adults. Qualitative data collected in 2020 and 2021 in Spain and Switzerland reveal three main reasons: climate, financial considerations, and feelings of attachment. Furthermore, the findings emphasise the importance of life course events in shaping transnational mobilities in old age. Finally, this study highlights the need to extend transnational ageing research to less permanent and multiple patterns of mobility.

L’analyse de données quantitatives et qualitatives récoltées auprès d’un large échantillon d’apprenti·e·x·s genevois·e·x·s en première année de formation professionnelle duale, nous a permis de démontrer que les élèves hétérosexuel·le·x·s qui ont une expression de genre non conforme aux normes de genre sont plus à risque d’arrêter leur apprentissage et que ces mêmes élèves peuvent être victimes de discriminations hétérosexistes durant leur parcours de formation du fait de leur expression de genre.

Cost of living is an important aspect of economic well-being, which is often neglected in inequality studies. Based on a Gini decomposition using admin data, this study estimates the relevance of minimum and average cost of living in Switzerland in relation to inequality and highlights the significance of direct taxes, everyday goods, housing, and health care premiums. Cost of living significantly increases disposable income inequality. Regional differences exist, which are primarily attributed to the design of welfare instruments.

This special issue explores how and why foreign families and individuals, as well as local institutions, capitalize on the Swiss private schools’ market. Our introduction unpacks how the country and its educational landscape intersect with broader ties to global capitalism and asset movement. By further unravelling the interplay of social re/production, Bourdieusian capital accumulation, and transnational mobility for the globally elite, our introduction sets forth an important research agenda on Switzerland’s international education sector.

This study examines which factors influence the long-term subjective career success of industrial workers, who experienced mass redundancy during the Great Recession. We used two tailor-made surveys to analyze how workers assess the impact of plant closure on their subjective career success. Higher educational attainment and a more internal locus of control correlate with a more positive assessment of post-redundancy career success. We also observe differences in workers’ evaluations due to differing plant closure modalities on the meso-level.

For business firms Grand Challenges (GCs) have become both a social expectation they must meet and a promising opportunity to make profits. Based on the insights of the organisation-society approach, we use the example of banks to show how social and ecological problems are translated into manageable objects and how this translation corresponds to changes at the field level. We identify new forms of collaboration, the emergence of new professionals, and the further trainings of established professionals as a promising research perspective.

Situated in the literature on China’s economic elites and Early Study Abroad, the study employs interviews to explore how wealthy Chinese families cultivate their children through schooling at Swiss international boarding schools. It reveals their approach to education as extending beyond academics and strategies for concerted cultivation from afar. By focusing on the parenting of the wealthy, it thus adds to the discussion on concerted cultivation, highlighting the lack of class anxiety and pivotal role of economic resources in such practices.

In the context of the increased concentration of wealth at the top of the social spectrum, the article studies the role of economic inheritance in the education of elites. The article relies on a study at several international boarding schools based in Switzerland to explore wealth-related school policies (notably through pocket money and philanthropy), economic socialization, and their impact on students’ self-identifications as a privileged elite.