analyzing how firms in Switzerland were affected by the introduction of the free movement of persons with the European Union (EU …) countries. This immigration reform granted all EU workers free access to the Swiss labor market. Our firm-level panel data …

Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

During recent immigration waves, nationalist parties increased their vote shares in many countries, but the political … backlash against immigration in some regions was much stronger than in others. We examine whether past experience with migrant … inflows shapes voters' reactions to current immigration waves. Our study is based on a natural experiment from Germany, where …