International trade and unemployment: towards an investigation of the Swiss case

Abstract The topic of this paper has been motivated by the rising unemployment rate of low-skilled relative to high-skilled labour in Switzerland. Between 1991 and 2014, Switzerland experienced the highest relative increase in the low-skilled unemployment rate among all OECD countries. A natural cul...

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Main Authors: Lukas Mohler, Rolf Weder, Simone Wyss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-06-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-017-0006-7