Okun's Law postulates a stable relationship between quarterly output growth and changes in (un)employment. This … extending the analysis to industry data from Switzerland, applying a method suggested by the International Monetary Fund … to earlier on. This does not seem to be the case in Switzerland, except in the construction industry. …

The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that … ; Beschäftigung ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Schweiz … unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even in favourable economic conditions, is on an increasing trend. This …

This paper provides novel evidence on downward nominal wage rigidities and their allocative effects in Switzerland. We … employment income (-0.97%), as well as an increase of unemployment (2.11%). …

The average unemployment rate in Europe has been consistently higher than in the United States since 1980. The main …

rich countries: New Zealand and Switzerland. We briefly discuss Kehoe/Prescott's definition of a "great depression … perform sensitivity tests with respect to alternative operationalisations for Switzerland and the U.S. It is shown that with …-performing Switzerland reduces considerably. Yet, this still does not explain the comparatively poor economic growth in Switzerland during …