International Journal of Manpower: Volume 19 Issue 7

On gender differences in wages in Switzerland

Giovanni Ferro Luzzi, Jacques Silber

In this paper, we devise a new methodology to analyse the gender differences in wage inequality. We first examine some traditional wage decomposition based on the means of wages…

Estimating wage functions and wage discrimination using data from the 1995 Swiss labour force survey: a double‐selectivity approach

Fred Henneberger, Alfonso Sousa‐Poza

The data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SAKE) have been widely used to estimate wage functions, which in turn have been applied for the determination of wage discrimination…

The impact of family structure on time use and potential wage in Switzerland

Tobias Bauer

Using the data of the Swiss Labour Force Survey for 1995, this paper examines the interrelations between family situation, time use and potential wage with descriptive regression…

Language‐based earnings differentials on the Swiss labour market: is Italian a liability?

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…

Evidence on the education profile and the assimilation of immigrants in Switzerland

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…