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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the skill mix of immigrants : evidence from Switzerland 1990-2010

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2017

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...

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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach

Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...

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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain

Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2013 - This version: May 2013

migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to … develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial logit migration model. Our model accommodates varying degrees of similarity … across alternative destinations. We find strong positive network effects on the scale of migration and a strong negative …

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European labour mobility : challenges and potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

; income distribution ; human capital ; skill allocation ; migration ; ethnicity ; minority ; Gini-coefficient …

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Train drain? : access to skilled foreign workers and firms' provision of training

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2021

Does better access to skilled workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the gradual opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit...

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The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers : evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas; Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2020

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...

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From labor to cash flow? : the abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of Swiss firms

Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2016

What is the effect of opening the labor market to foreign workers on the success of firms? We address this question by 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...

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