Helfer, Fabienne; Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 159 (2023) 1, pp. 1-31
This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland … has substantially raised prices of single-family homes and of owner-occupied apartments. Before the reform, immigration … has not affected house prices. Estimates based on cantonal data for the years 1998-2016 suggest that immigration has …