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The Supply of Foreign Talent : How Skill-Biased Technology Drives the Skill Mix of Immigrants Evidence From Switzerland 1990– 2010
Beerli, Andreas - 2019
An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865976
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Do immigrants take or create residents' jobs? Quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland
Basten, Christoph Carl; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319716
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Baumol's diseases: The case of Switzerland
Hartwig, Jochen - 2010
Nordhaus (2008) has developed a testing strategy for what he calls Baumol's diseases, by which name he designates a number of by-products of structural change that are unwanted from an economic policy perspective. He finds that the U.S. economy is strongly affected by the diseases. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277747
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Can Baumol's model of unbalanced growth contribute to explaining the secular rise in health care expenditure? An alternative test
Hartwig, Jochen - 2007
In a recent paper I argued that Baumol's (1967) model of unbalanced growth offers a ready explanation for the observed secular rise in health care expenditure (HCE) in rich countries (HARTWIG 2006). Baumol's model implies that HCE is driven by wage increases in excess of productivity growth. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277793
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Has health capital formation cured Baumol's Disease? Panel Granger causality evidence for OECD countries
Hartwig, Jochen - 2008
A large body of both theoretical and empirical literature has affirmed a positive impact of human capital accumulation in the form of health on economic growth. Yet Baumol (1967) has presented a model in which imbalances in productivity growth between a progressive (manufacturing) sector and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285807
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between the United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285835
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Do Immigrants Take or Create Residents’ Jobs? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Switzerland
Basten, Christoph - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080995
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Trying to assess the quality of macroeconomic data: The case of Swiss labour productivity growth as an example
Hartwig, Jochen - 2007
Macroeconomic data are indispensable for modern governance, yet it is often unclear how reliable these data are. The production process of macroeconomic data inside the statistical offices is often not very transparent for the general public. Bystanders usually have no choice but to take for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277732
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Job Mobility, Peer Effects, and Research Productivity in Economics
Bolli, Thomas - 2013
Analysing a comprehensive panel dataset of economists working at Austrian, German, and Swiss universities, we investigate how the local environment influences a scientist's research productivity. The research environment varies if a scientist joins another department or if the characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076217
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The Swiss 'Job Miracle'
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2014
, forecasters systematically underestimated the growth of domestic employment. Finally, we highlight that immigration was not only a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040487