whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … fact that different regions in Switzerland were differentially exposed to ICT due to their pre-ICT industrial composition …

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of resident employees in Switzerland, whose … foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last decade. To address endogeneity of immigration into different labor … that part in the variation of immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. We find …

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of resident employees in Switzerland, whose … foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last decade. To address endogeneity of immigration into different labor … that part in the variation of immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. We find …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence about the relative merits of competing hypotheses. It tips the … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

In a pioneering attempt we present the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. We evaluate its predictive ability of …

I investigate whether demand growth and productivity growth in Switzerland have benefitted from the wage moderation …

- can be useful for short-term out-of-sample prediction of year-on-year quarterly real GDP growth rates in Switzerland. We …

panel data for two small open economies - Ireland and Switzerland. Our analysis is based on the estimation of reduced form …