This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of … displaced workers due to plant closures in Austria. Using the Austrian Social Security Database (a matched employer …-entry tenure. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in the network employment rate leads to a 3.2 percent increase in the …

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … have crowded out natives, our quasi-experimental results reveal that immigration has in fact reduced unemployment and … increased employment of residents in the last decade. …

Job polarization is a widely documented phenomenon in developed countries since the 1980s: employment has been shifting …