Herz, Benedikt (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay ...
Albert, Christoph (Date of defense: 2018-09-27)
This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a search model with non-random hiring that ...
Diz, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2019-10-03)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. The first chapter investigates the redistributive role minimum wages can play over the cycle and the implied effects on macroeconomic stability. To ...
Hafner, Flavio (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility ...
Surovtseva, Tetyana (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
In Part I of this thesis, I show that, when immigrants’ host and home countries engage in trade, labor market returns to cultural capital specific to the trading partner increase. Using two trade ...