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The Swiss 'Job Miracle'
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2014
While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for … consequence of the “miracle”, but also an important cause, as it created additional jobs in Switzerland by raising local demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040487
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Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays
Martinez, Isabel - 2018
This paper estimates intertemporal labor supply responses to two-year long income tax holidays staggered across Swiss cantons. Cantons shifted from an income tax system based on the previous two years' income to a standard annual pay as you earn system, leaving two years of income untaxed. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918620
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From Labor to Cash Flow? The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Swiss Firms
Ruffner, Jan - 2018
We study how a reform that granted EU workers free access to the Swiss labor market affected Swiss firms. Our firm-level Differences-in-Differences estimations exploit the fact that the reform incidentally affected firms close to the border more strongly. We find that the reform increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920595
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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers : Evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas - 2018
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907146
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A Real Time Evaluation of Employment Forecasts in Switzerland
Graff, Michael - 2012
We evaluate nowcasts and one- to four-quarter-ahead forecasts of Swiss full time equivalent jobs from 1998q1–2011q4, comparing forecasts of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs with the outcome of the reference series. Both forecasts are biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098262
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Do Immigrants Take or Create Residents’ Jobs? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Switzerland
Basten, Christoph - 2013
We estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of resident employees in Switzerland, whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080995
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Characteristics and drivers of the Swiss "job miracle"
Siegenthaler, Michael; Graff, Michael; Mannino, Massimo - In: Review of economics 67 (2016) 1, pp. 53-89
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A real time evaluation of employment forecasts in Switzerland
Graff, Michael; Mannino, Massimo; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2012
We evaluate nowcasts and one- to four-quarter-ahead forecasts of Swiss full time equivalent jobs from 1998–2011, comparing forecasts of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs with the outcome of the reference series. Both forecasts are biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658652
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Das Personenfreizügigkeitsabkommen Schweiz-EU/EFTA und das Wachstum des BIP pro Kopf in der Schweiz : Bericht zuhanden des Bundesamtes für Migration (BFM)
Siegenthaler, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2012
Dieser Bericht beleuchtet, wie das Personenfreizügigkeitsabkommen (FZA) der Schweiz mit den EU/EFTA-Staaten das … Einkommenswachstum in der Schweiz in den letzten Jahren beeinflusst hat. Der Bericht verfolgt das Ziel, Klarheit in die in der … Bruttoinlandprodukts (BIP) pro Kopf der Bevölkerung in der Schweiz gehabt hat. Aus den Analysen lässt sich vor allem ein genereller Schluss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009664710
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Do immigrants take or create residents' jobs? : quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland
Basten, Christoph; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013 - This version: May 2013
We estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of resident employees in Switzerland, whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757268