Guest Workers as an Automatic Stabilizer of Cyclical Unemployment in Switzerland and Germany

Author(s) : W. E. Kuhn

Source : http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2545604

Abstract:

This paper examines the effect of varying the employment of foreign workers as an economic stabilization device in two highly industrialized West European countries: Germany and Switzerland. Discussing the migrant worker fluctuations in Switzerland, the author concludes that such a stabilization is not yet possible.