zurzeit kontrovers diskutierte Frage, die für die Entwicklung der Schweiz von höchster Bedeutung ist. …

Opening the Border: Evidence from Switzerland’’ analyses the effect of opening the labor market for workers from the European … Union in Switzerland after 1999. We exploit that this opening followed two different schedules for two different parts of … the country. We find that the abolition of immigration restrictions increased the share of new immigrants by four …