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schemes of subsidized temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment … anyway, as well as for those with short unemployment duration. For unemployed with potentially long unemployment duration and …
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The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and earnings are evaluated by non-parametric instrumental variables based on Swiss administrative data with detailed regional information. Using an exogenous variation in the participation probabilities across...
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We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland, analyzing both social security data on labor incomes and ….01 percent’s share even doubled, putting Switzerland similar to European countries for the top 1 percent group but closer to the … suggests that labor incomes have become more important among top income earners in Switzerland. This is in line with findings …
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This Paper revisits the puzzle of low returns on Swiss franc assets using a new dataset of international portfolio holdings at Swiss banks. The main findings are as follows. First, we find that the return anomaly is present only for fixed income assets and not for equity. Second, it is mostly...
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Low corporate taxes can help attract new firms. This is the main mechanism underpinning the standard 'race-to-the-bottom' view of tax competition. A recent theoretical literature has qualified this view by formalizing the argument that agglomeration forces can reduce firms' sensitivity to tax...
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We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in programme...
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This paper provides a critical review of competition policy in Switzerland. We analyse the legal statute, the …
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Using data from the 1981 Family Expenditure Survey we estimate a logit model for the choice between unemployment and … characteristics of the households in the survey and unemployment rates in the industries in which the households usually work. The … influence of tax-benefit reforms on unemployment using an equation that attaches a moderately strong prior belief to the theory. …
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previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean … unemployment. Taking account of the mean reversion in unemployment we find no detrimental effect of immigration. Similar results …
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elasticities for those who experienced unemployment during the previous year and those on higher incomes; for average employed men …
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