This cumulative dissertation consists of three essays. The first essays with the title ‘‘The Labor Market Effect of 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...

Implications of low productivity growth for debt sustainability / by Neil Mehrotra -- Slow productivity growth will pressure sovereign debt sustainability / by Elena Duggar -- Implications for tax policy of lower trend productivity growth / by Karen Dynan -- The effects of low productivity...