This paper considers an equilibrium model of unemployment in a labour market where all vacancies are advertised in a … newspaper. Unemployment occurs in occupations that are short on vacancies. New vacancies are created by entrepreneurial search … and investment, so it may take some time before an unemployed worker finds a job. Wages are determined by bargaining. A …

-industrial sector. The interaction of investment with unemployment creates a channel for potentially divergent long-run outcomes. If the …

-defined local labour markets. This allows pursuing instrumental variable as well as matching estimation strategies. A specific …

This paper provides a critical review of competition policy in Switzerland. We analyse the legal statute, the …

small sample problems occurring in IV estimation, our results suggest that ALMP increases individual employment …

schemes of subsidized temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment … anyway, as well as for those with short unemployment duration. For unemployed with potentially long unemployment duration and …

We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland, analyzing both social security data on labor incomes and ….01 percent’s share even doubled, putting Switzerland similar to European countries for the top 1 percent group but closer to the … suggests that labor incomes have become more important among top income earners in Switzerland. This is in line with findings …

We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that …