The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses … two natural quasi-experiments to directly compare foreign to native labor supply in manual farm work. The first quasi …

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria … from former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on unemployment entry of young male workers, who are supposed to compete most …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …