We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different labor market cells, we develop new variants of the...

Abstract: Since unemployment rates began to rise in the mid-1970s, reducing unemployment has become a central political challenge in Germany and other European countries. Despite the current improvement of the labor market situation and decreasing rates in Germany, unemployment is still one of...

Introduction -- The development of the state-voluntary sector relationship and its impact on employment relations -- Understanding the psychological contract in the voluntary sector -- Research methods -- Voluntary sector work and employment relations in the quasi-market -- Case study 1 -- Case...