this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …

this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …

this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … increased employment of residents in the last decade. …

In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected … acceptance of a referendum aiming at limiting free movement of persons. The referendum requires Switzerland to reintroduce annual … important agreements between Switzerland and the European Union, and reduced expected future domestic demand for firms. This …

. In addition, we show that the KOF Employment Indicator as well as the Employment Indicator of the Federal Statistical … employment ; forecast evaluation ; Swiss labor market …

While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for …, forecasters systematically underestimated the growth of domestic employment. Finally, we highlight that immigration was not only a … consequence of the "miracle", but also an important cause, as it created additional jobs in Switzerland by raising local demand …