labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and …

aggregate productivity growth. We focus our attention on foreign firms and small firms for three reasons. First, industrial …-digit level industries for the 1983-2001 period. We decompose productivity growth into its components (structural change …, entry and exit, technical change, efficiency change, and scale effects) by firm ownership and size. The decomposition …

, level, using the so-called Shapley decomposition to determine the contribution of three componentsthe traditional … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes …

We estimate monetary policy rules in Switzerland for 1981-1997. In addition to an inflation gap, we find that forward …

using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …