Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over … imply that macroeconomic fluctuations can have substantial effects beyond those indicated by net employment changes at the …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …

effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment …

frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for … shocks play a key role in allowing the model to match the persistence of the employment and out of the labor force states …