This paper begins with an examination of various ways of measuring unemployment and, borrowing ideas from the poverty … measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index … unemployment rate, the average unemployment duration, and the inequality in the unemployment durationsto the differences between …

using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …

tool to quantify the magnitudes of Switzerland's gains from trade. I find that the importance of single trading partners … for Switzerland's welfare is surprisingly small. The reason are reallocation effects - if trade between Switzerland and …

We estimate monetary policy rules in Switzerland for 1981-1997. In addition to an inflation gap, we find that forward …

socio-economic outcomes and country case studies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which illustrate the political …