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• Unemployment.

Figures released early October showed that the number of unemployed is fast approaching 150,000 (3.7 per cent). Long-term unemployed make up 17 per ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003

• Employment Meltdown

Nations are facing a global jobs crisis. Unemployment is rising rapidly, and is expected to reach 230 million people worldwide this year. They may be headed for a vast prolonged and severe jobs crisis. Just as policy-markets have taken and swift action to respond to the financial and economic downturn, similar bold action is required to address the jobs crisis. First, jobs and social protection must become the bedrock of crisis responses. Second, the response must be coordinated and global. All countries must join in making employment and social protection a centerpiece of their crisis responses. Third, there was a crisis before this crisis and they cannot just aim to go back to business as usual. In restoring confidence, they must focus on building peoples trust in progress towards a n...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 1, Janvier 2009

• Decisions: asylum and unemployment laws.

This month will see the last of four referendums in 2002, as the Swiss citizenry will step up to the ballot box to cast its vote on two key proposals:...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002

• What Competition has Done for Europe*

Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, managed to erase "free and undistorted competition" from the proposed new EU Treaty as a main aim of the European Union. Afterwards, he asked rhetorically what competition has done for Europe. This article is an attempt to reply to that very important question. The view of competition and its effects among decision-makers is likely to affect numerous policy outcomes. Throughout history, there has been a struggle between freedom and control in Europe. Competition is the result of economic freedom and the absence of interventions in the economy by the state. And it has done very much indeed for Europe. It may be the single most important reason why the average income in Western Europe is 14 times higher today than in 1820. If anything, Europe needs mo...

... of economic freedom also have lower unemployment. A core feature of the concept of economic freedom...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 62 Num. 4, Décembre 2007

• Unemployment lowers.

For the first time over the last two years, the Swiss unemployment rate has fallen slightly in February by 0.1 per cent to 4.2 per cent--approximately...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Geneva: unemployment soars.

For the last 20 years, Geneva's unemployment office has seen its queues get longer than anywhere else in the country. Today, the rate of unemploymen...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Unemployment falls.

The fall in Swiss unemployment rate for the third consecutive month has fuelled hope that the economy is finally gathering steam. Still, experts remai...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Unemployment: foreigners bear the brunt; the global economic slowdown has not left Switzerland unscathed. Foreigners here are having a tough time job-wise. A report.

For so many long years has Switzerland been regarded as the land of milk and honey that the economic slowdown affecting the country over the last few ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Unemployment on the rise again.

At the end of December 130,000 unemployed were registered in Switzerland, or 3.6 per cent of the workforce. The unemployment rate now stands at its ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003

• Unemployment rises again.

Unemployment in Switzerland has reached its highest level for four and a half years. The official jobless rate went up by 0.2 per cent in January to...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003