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The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border : Evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457348
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Health Insurance and the Labor Market
Gruber, Jonathan - 1998
present a theoretical overview of the effects of health insurance on mobility and wage/employment determination. I critically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472051
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Demographic Differences in Cyclical Employment Variation
Clark, Kim B. - 1980
Demographic differences in patterns of employment variation over the business cycle are examined in this paper. Three … in the labor market. Second, young people bear a disproportionate share of cyclical employment variation. Third, failure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478622
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467955
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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers : Evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas - 2018
effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment …
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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success
Battisti, Michele - 2016
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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Idiosyncratic Risk and Aggregate Employment Dynamics
Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 2000
This paper studies how producers' idiosyncratic risks affect an industry's aggregate dynamics in an environment where certainty equivalence fails. In the model, producers can place workers in two types of jobs, organized and temporary. Workers are less productive in temporary jobs, but creating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470800
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Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange Rate
Klein, Michael W. - 2000
This paper contributes to an understanding of internationally generated adjustment costs by demonstrating a statistically significant and economically relevant effect of the real exchange rate on job creation and job destruction in U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1973 to 1993. The...
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The Concentration of Job Destruction
Hall, Robert E. - 1999
concentration. Data on job destruction and employment change for U.S. manufacturing show unambiguous evidence of concentration …
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Coveting Thy Neighbor's Manuafacturing : The Dilemma of State Income Apportionment
Goolsbee, Austan - 1998
-level employment. For the average state, reducing the payroll weight from one-third to one-quarter increases manufacturing employment … externalities on other states in that the effects of the apportionment formula on aggregate employment is zero. Every job gained …
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