different groups of the permanent resident population in Switzerland. The results show a negative correlation between non-employment …With more than a fifth of the population being foreign citizens, Switzerland offers an ideal case to study the migrant …

The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that … economic growth no longer has any effect on employment ("jobless growth"), and second, that the "equilibrium" rate of … unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even in favourable economic conditions, is on an increasing trend. This …

-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the … integrate migrants, refugees and asylum seekers into their labour markets. The analysis builds on the understanding of socio …

this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …