As the outcome of the third international conference of political economy, the papers in this volume cover a range of topics, related to the conference theme of "labor markets and employment", from globalization to migration, unionization to policy implementation, and women's labor to child...

This cumulative dissertation consists of three essays. The first essays with the title ‘‘The Labor Market Effect of Opening the Border: Evidence from Switzerland’’ analyses the effect of opening the labor market for workers from the European Union in Switzerland after 1999. We exploit...

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a consequence of economic development. The first three...