I think the Swiss situation is a little different to what you think: there are about 9 million people in Switzerland, of which just under a third are foreign born. A lot of these are low skilled immi… (View Post)

Personally, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Switzerland works because they ensure their local population leaves school extremely ready for work. If you're not going down the university rout… (View Post)

I agree, with one proviso. The key thing to understand is that the purpose of GDP was to measure the taxable output of the economy. How much activity is there that the government could potentially ta… (View Post)

Well: there's essentially no labour black market in Switzerland. (And the same is true of Norway.) In both countries, people who enable the undocumented (whether through employing them, housing them,… (View Post)

The problem is that there are lots of second and third order effects (in both directions) which are hard to control for. (View Post)