The paper analyzes the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research...

This paper examines how the marginal CO2 abatement costs vary throughout stages of economic development, and how these variations may be related to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. By assuming the existence of a technological link between production of desirable outputs and...

Whereas Anglo-Saxon economies have recently experienced a widening wage distribution between skill groups, the Swiss wage structure has remained almost stable. This raises the question whether the Swiss labour market did not experience a decrease in the relative demand for low-skilled workers as...

Im Jahr 2003 wurden 88,4% aller Scheidungen in Oesterreich im Einvernehmen geschieden. Die einvernehmliche Scheidung erfordert - wenn beide Gatten die Scheidung wuenschen - nur eine Vereinbarung der wesentlichen Scheidungsfolgen. Anhand von Scheidungsakten der Jahre 1997-2003 eines...

I analyse unemployment and subsequent employment history for Switzerland. Using administrative panel data, I estimate a discrete time hazard model for the exit from different labor market states. I find that having previously experienced unemployment increases the risk of persistent...

In this paper, we study the effect of women's suffrage on government expenditure in Swiss cantons. Based on the institutionally induced change in the electorate, we analyse the relationship between politically represented preferences and the outcome of the political process. Women, on average,...