In this paper we study the effects of Switzerland implementing the Schengen agreement on cross-border commuting from … granted freedom to cross borders away from fixed checkpoints, commuting costs are severely reduced. Using data from the … European Labour Force Survey, we estimate that the individual probability to cross-border commute to Switzerland in response to …

residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW …Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … increased their employment within 10 minutes of commuting time from the border by 4 to 5 percentage points. The increased inflow …

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … than the openly unemployed. In this case, this is due to the relatively higher probability of commuting that predominates … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour …

We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo …-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and … commuting time. Using German employee-employer matched data and an event study design, we identify the causal effect of job loss …