IZA DP No. 3132 Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh Takao Kato Hodaka Morita DISCUSSION P APER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor October 2007 Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and...

IZA DP No. 2927 Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture Michael Kosfeld Ferdinand von Siemens DISCUSSION P APER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor July 2007 Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture Michael Kosfeld...

Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led Switzerland to have among the highest share of foreigners in population among all OECD countries. This paper analyses the migration experience of Switzerland. The analysis...

Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...

Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...