analyzing how firms in Switzerland were affected by the introduction of the free movement of persons with the European Union (EU …) countries. This immigration reform granted all EU workers free access to the Swiss labor market. Our firm-level panel data …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …

In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected … acceptance of a referendum aiming at limiting free movement of persons. The referendum requires Switzerland to reintroduce annual … important agreements between Switzerland and the European Union, and reduced expected future domestic demand for firms. This …

"With more than 20 percent, Switzerland is one of the countries with the largest foreign population. Since 1970 the … of immigration policy and its goal has become very weak and the level of foreign population is at an all time high …

This meta-study investigates recent research on the effects of immigration on the welfare state in Austria, Germany and … Switzerland. Due to the 2015 arrival of high numbers of refugees into Europe, the focus is on studies about asylum seekers …