Free movement of people: joy or sorrow?

Maurizio Bigotta (1) , Gonzalez Oscar (2) , Fabio Beniamino Losa (2, 3)

1 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva
2 Office cantonal de la statistique du canton du Tessin
3 African Development Bank Group

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.

Mots clés: deregulation; immigration; analyse de politique

Domaines: Economies et finances; Gestion et management

Maurizio Bigotta, Gonzalez Oscar, Fabio Beniamino Losa. Free movement of people: joy or sorrow?. ValeurS, 2013, pp.14-15. ⟨halshs-01182924⟩