Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland 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 … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …

The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …

anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number of refugees from Syria and other broken countries sought to … migrate to EU countries (along very dangerous routes), and these refugees were met with fierce resistance, at least in some …

employment or relocate elsewhere. Although the higher minimum wage reduced employment for unskilled workers, anti …, but those losses were offset by employment gains at surviving plants. The message is a mixed one: activism significantly …

-level data on income, employment, unemployment, and the area's racial composition from the published volumes of the federal … blacks' income and employment that were economically significant and that may have been larger in the long run (1960 …

In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … competitiveness. The expanded domestic output leads to more employment at home (output effect). The net effect of FDI on domestic … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …