Immigration has always been an important economic issue for Switzerland and thus a hotly debated topic in Swiss politics. Over the last forty years, the total share of foreigners (relative to permanent Swiss residents) has risen steadily from 9.3% in 1960 to 19.3% in 2000. With the forthcoming ratification of the Second Bilateral Treaties between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland, immigration and its impact on the Swiss economy, in particular on the Swiss labor market, will become even more important since immigration restrictions between member countries of the EU and Switzerland will, to a large extent, be eliminated. Currently the Swiss parliament is also working on a new naturalization law and is attempting a partial revision of the asylum act. Therefore, it is not surprising that unions and politicians are becoming more concerned about the effects of immigration on the wages of Swiss nationals. Surprisingly, there has not been much research undertaken regarding the consequences to the Swiss labor market even though there exists a vast international literature on the effects of immigration on domestic labor markets. ∗Thanks to Kurt Schmidheiny (Tufts University), George Sheldon (University of Basel), Tobias Wenzel (University of Mannheim), Philippe Deschamps and Henner Kleinewefers (University of Fribourg) for support and valuable comments. John Theal (University of Lausanne) and Shauna Selvarajah (University of Fribourg) proofread the paper. All remaining errors are (unfortunately) the sole responsibility of the author.
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In several chapters we have analysed the consequences of both internal and international migration of labour in the context of models of international trade. However, in all chapters, except parts of chapter eight, international migration has been treated as legal migration. As noted earlier, illegal migration is a worldwide phenomenon; present both in third world and advanced economies. For example, India receives illegal migrants from Nepal and Bangladesh. Americans receive both legal andlor illegal migrants from its neighbouring countries. Both types of migrants are of great concern to politicians and policy makers, since such migration has an impact on resident welfare1.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1163/157181606776911969
Robert Thomas
To be recognised as a refugee it is necessary for the asylum claimant to demonstrate that they have a well-founded fear of persecution for one of the convention reasons. This test is usually broken down into two principal components: the subjective element of whether the claimant fears persecution and the objective element of whether there are reasonable grounds for believing that the subjective fear of persecution is objectively well-founded. While much legal analysis has been devoted to the legal tests governing the determination of refugee status (e.g. the meaning and application of “persecution”, “membership of a particular social group” and the “internal flight alternative”), the majority of claims are determined on their individual factual circumstances. This paper examines and compares the approaches taken by decision-makers in both UK and EU law toward the assessment of credibility.
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