Labour market
The labour market in Ticino after the introduction of the "ALCP" (2015)
Analizyng the labour market situation in the years following the introduction of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (ALCP)
The study was developed with the support of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in order to study the situation of the labour market in Ticino after the entry into force of the Free Movement of Persons. The idea behind this project was to use the skills developed in Ticino (Labour Market Observatory - Institute of Economic Research of the Università della Svizzera italiana), combining them with the experience of SECO. The goal of the collaboration was to explore important issues for the Ticino using the scientific analysis. The survey was based on statistical data that the SECO and the Federal Statistics Office (through the Statistical Office of the Canton of Ticino) provided.
Target: in the years following the entry into force of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (ALCP) between Switzerland and the European Union the importance of foreign labour supply has increased sharply for the Swiss labor market. The impact of this factor on employment and on the indigenous labor force wages has been the subject of numerous scientific studies throughout Switzerland in recent years. However, less attention has been given so far to the specific challenges of the Canton of Ticino. This is the subject of this research: the development of cross-border commuting and its impact on employment growth and unemployment in the canton of Ticino..
The goal of the study is therefore to analyze and discuss the situation and development of the Ticino labour market in recent years and in general after the introduction of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons ALCP.
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Unemployment and transborder commuter workers in the Canton Ticino (2011)
The current trends of trans-border markets in Europe
Since the entry into force of the bilateral agreements on the free movement of persons (2002) and, in particular, the abolition of the priority given to local workers, in force since 2004, many concerns have animated the economic and political debates at the cantonal level, especially concerning the evolution of the number of commuters and the potential adverse effects that these changes may cause, particularly in terms of rising unemployment as a result of replacement of resident workforce with foreign personnel. On behalf of the Tripartite cantonal board, the IRE implemented a structured research, to answer the question whether there is a causal relationship between unemployment and trans-border commuting. The research focused on official statistics and administrative data described separately the evolution of the two phenomena in the last ten years to determine whether there are scientifically valid elements that can lead to the conclusion that there is a causal relationship between the two phenomena, and thus a trend and systematic replacement of resident staff with personal post.
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