Free movement of people: joy or sorrow?
Résumé
Has the free movement of persons caused job losses or has it stimulated economic growth and the employment of the local labour force as well? Has it led to a lowering of domestic wages or have the stimuli of growth caused them to rise? Through the quantitative analysis of the abolition of a pillar of Swiss migration policy – the employment priority given to the domestic labour force until June 2004 – the study done by the Cantonal Statistis Office of Ticino provides answers to these questions.