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The skill-biased effects of exchange rate fluctuations

Kaiser, Boris; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2015

This paper examines the linkages between real exchange rate movements and firms' skill demand. Real exchange rate movements may affect unskilled workers differently than skilled workers because of skill-specific adjustment costs, or because exchange rates lead to changes in relative factor...

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Resolving the ambiguity : a meta-analysis of the effect of employment protection on employment and unemployment

Kemper, Johanna - 2016

The effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on unemployment and employment levels is still an unresolved issue in the literature. To tackle this issue is the aim of this meta-analysis. Drawing on evidence from 72 studies, I find that EPL has no statistically significant effect on the...

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Employment effect of innovation

Kancs, D'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2017

The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro-econometric analysis is based on a large international panel data set from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. Employing flexible semi-parametric methods - the generalised...

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Entwicklungen auf dem schweizerischen Arbeitsmarkt seit 1980

Frick, Andres (contributor); Lampart, Daniel (contributor) - 2007

The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that … ; Beschäftigung ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Schweiz …

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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 … 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 …

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Employee education, information and communication technology, workplace organization and trade : a comparative analysis of Greek and Swiss enterprises

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Loukis, Euripidis N. - 2009

industries) in Greece and Switzerland; from these data econometric models of similar specification have been constructed for both …. Our results show both similarities and differences in the above aspects between Greece and Switzerland and indicate that …

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Determinants of equity-based and co-operative foreign R&D and impact on the parent firm's performance

Berger, Martin; Hollenstein, Heinz - 2012

estimations for Switzerland and Austria using comparable firm data and model specifications. The two countries are interesting …

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A real time evaluation of employment forecasts in Switzerland

Graff, Michael; Mannino, Massimo; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2012

We evaluate nowcasts and one- to four-quarter-ahead forecasts of Swiss full time equivalent jobs from 1998–2011, comparing forecasts of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs with the outcome of the reference series. Both forecasts are biased...

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Are ICT, workplace organization and human capital relevant for innovation? : a comparative study based on Swiss and Greek micro data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Loukis, Euripidis N.; … - 2013

a comparative setting for two countries, Greece and Switzerland, with quite different levels of technological and …

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Die konjunkturelle Ausrichtung der Schweizer Finanzpolitik im internationalen Vergleich : Ex-Ante- vs. Ex-Post-Betrachtung

Lampart, Daniel (contributor) - 2005

Finanzpolitik ex post oder ex ante betrachtet wird, fällt die Schweiz durch eine prozyklische Ausrichtung auf. Politökonomische …

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