Using firm-level data for up to 707 Swiss hotels and restaurants we evaluate the economic impact of the EURO 2008 soccer championship. Although aggregated macro data reveal no economic impact, we report an overall negative effect based on the surveyed companies. Notably the reported effects of...

Der touristische Arbeitsmarkt steht vor großen Herausforderungen, wie dem Arbeitskräftemangel oder der hohen Fluktuation der Arbeitskräfte in Folge der ausgeprägten saisonalen Schwankungen des Personalbedarfs. Hinzu kamen die Einschränkungen und Maßnahmen im Zuge der COVID-19 Pandemie....

We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...

Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...