{"id":33996,"date":"2021-10-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=33996"},"modified":"2021-10-25T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T07:00:00","slug":"immigrants-and-cross-border-worker-in-the-swiss-labor-market-three-empirical-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=33996","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants and cross-border worker in the Swiss labor market: three empirical essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Sandro Favre<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5167\/uzh-205831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5167\/uzh-205831<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">&#8220;<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Switzerland is located in the heart of Western Europe, shares its national languages <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">with its three large neighbors, and has over the last two decades gradually abolished <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">virtually all barriers to immigration from European Union (EU) and European Free <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Trade Association (EFTA) countries. As a consequence, immigration\u2014mainly from <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the EU and the EFTA\u2014has resulted in an astonishing increase in the Swiss pop<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ulation by 15 percent (while natural population growth was below 5 percent over <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">this period)!<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">In addition, cross-border worker (CBW) from neighboring countries <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">make up 6 percent of the Swiss labor force.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">While Switzerland\u2019s labor market is <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">thus highly integrated with its neighboring countries, there are at the same time <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">sharp economic and institutional discontinuities. Wages are substantially higher in <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Switzerland than in the surrounding countries, tax laws and social security regu<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">lations differ, and Switzerland has its own currency, which has experienced huge <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">fluctuations in its value relative to the euro. This situation raises a number of in<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">teresting economic questions.<\/span>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Sandro Favre Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5167\/uzh-205831<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[693,106,520,120,552,589,9,34,27,107,87,17,98,19,327,279,158],"class_list":["post-33996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-693","tag-border-controls","tag-cross-border-workers","tag-data-analysis","tag-demographic-impact","tag-doctoral-thesis","tag-english-language","tag-european-free-trade-association","tag-european-union","tag-freedom-of-movement","tag-history","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration-policy","tag-labour-market","tag-research","tag-socioeconomic-factors","tag-working-conditions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}