"This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of immigrants on native female labour supply. By segmenting the market by educational levels, we are able to investigate which nativeborn women are more affected by an increase of low-skilled immigrants working in the household service...

"The Swiss mass apprenticeship system is market based. The share of training firms as a percentage of all firms is therefore an indicator which receives much public attention. The share of training firms declined markedly from 1985 to 2001, dropping from 24.7 to 17.6%. This has often been...

"This paper uses regional variation in labor markets, the industry structure and the education system to explain the training decisions of firms. Using a representative firmlevel data set, the results show that firms are less likely to provide training if the number of competing firms situated...

1997 gingen die konjunkturellen Uhren - wie schon seit 1994 - weiter nach. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt nahm bei annähernd stagnierender Inlandsnachfrage um etwa 0,5% zu. Die Arbeitslosenquote stieg auf 5,3%. 1998 gewinnt die Erholung allmählich an Breite, das reale BIP dürfte um ca. 1,5%...

Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt dürfte 1992 um etwa 0.5% abgenommen haben. Als Folge der Ablehnung des Beitritts zum EWR in dem Referendum am 6. Dezember 1992 wurden u.a. auch die Konjunkturprognosen nach unten korrigiert. Die leicht rezessive Entwicklung dürfte bis weit in das Jahr 1993 hinein...