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Do foreign workers compete with domestic employees and put pressure on their wages? Or are companies dependent on immigrants to be able to grow? Researchers from KOF have examined these questions. Watch the video for the most important answers.

Dr Michael Siegenthaler, from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of ETH Zurich receives the 2017 SIAF Award. The labour market expert is being honoured for his outstanding dissertation on the subject of "The Swiss Labour Market."

"Jobs Now" is a joint report by the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN), Accenture, and the KOF on the vocational education and training (VET) system in Switzerland.

Stefan Pichler of KOF Swiss Economic Institute and his colleagues Metin Akyol and Michael Neugart win the "EALE Labour Economics Prize" for the best paper published in Labour Economics during 2015.