.... Switzerland is a small and open economy with weak union power and employment protection legislation. It can thus be considered as a price taker in the international labor market, being subject to competition from other countries. The workforce of this country, in fact, contains a substantial share...

... of the immigrants regarding self-employment. For this reason, we use data at the highest level of geographical disaggregation, the Census tract – which in Switzerland corresponds to the local unit or municipality – in order to capture the expected spatial spillovers of network effects due to the presence...

... of “valuable work” is decided to a large extent at firm level. Under such circumstances, workers’ bargaining power in restructuring processes is a key issue. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Labour law Trade unions France Switzerland Voice Capabilities Restructuring...

... fact, there is almost no study of the factors explaining this concentration. The research starts filling these two gaps. Let us first look at some general statistics on the location of immigrants in Switzerland. The main national origins for which the analysis is conducted are presented...

... a thorough investigation of the role of various factors. There is no other data in Switzerland that allows the investigation of the evolution of labour‐market phenomena over such a long period. Also focuses on different forms of self‐employment, a distinction that has often been overlooked in the literature...

... significant differences between insiders and outsiders with regard to specific motives. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Working hours Retailing Staff turnover Switzerland Changes in lifestyles and consumers’ needs have reshaped shopping behaviour in most of the industrialized countries...

...Stefan C. Wolter; Bernhard A. Weber The sudden slump in the labour market of the 1990s made it necessary for Switzerland to alter its labour market policy, which from being almost exclusively passive became an active policy. Indeed a lack of suitable qualifications can be considered as one...

...François Grin; Claudio Sfreddo This paper examines wage rate differentials that set off speakers of Italian (Switzerland’s third national language community) from the rest of the population. Although second language skills are used here as control variables, the focus is on agents’ first language...

... offset by the large value of the selectivity‐correction coefficient. As will be shown below, these large coefficients have a substantial effect on the determination of wage discrimination. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Discrimination Gender Switzerland Pay The Swiss Labour Force Survey...

... a simple measure of inequality, that is the variance of the logarithm of wages. We then apply this method to Swiss data for the years 1991 and 1995. It appears that the greatest contribution to gender wage inequality differences in Switzerland is due to differences in the distributions of unobservable...

...Augustin de Coulon This paper represents an attempt to investigate the assimilation process of immigrants in Switzerland. Some institutional and historical background is first presented, after which we analyse the education profile of the immigrants through four cohorts of arrival. The results tend...

...Yves Flückiger This paper presents a general survey of the Swiss economy. It emphasises the various factors that have been put forward to explain the very low unemployment rate recorded in Switzerland up to the beginning of the 1990s. It also analyses the factors which may be held responsible...

... Labour market Models Switzerland Unemployment Pay Working hours The surge in unemployment in Switzerland since 1991 has prompted calls for a reduction of standard working time and, above all, a limitation on the use of overtime, particularly in the more affected sectors. These calls...

...Jean‐Marc Falter; Yves Flückiger; Jacques Silber This study attempts to analyze the various factors which may have led an individual living in 1995 and 1996 in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, from regular employment to reliance on social welfare via a stage where unemployment benefits...