Conny Wunsch,Felix Rochlitz,Patrick Arni
Conny Wunsch
This paper uses novel linked survey and administrative data for jobseekers in Switzerland to study jobseekers' skills, potential skill gaps, and their job search behaviour. Based on a realized sample of survey participants that is better ed...
Frédéric Kluser
Frédéric Kluser
Cross-border shopping expands product variety and lowers prices for consumers in high-price countries, but it diminishes domestic tax revenues, reduces sales, and shifts demand away from local retailers. Exploiting Switzerland's COVID-19-in...
Digital technologies and performance incentives: evidence from businesses in the Swiss economy [0.03%]
数字技术与绩效激励：来自瑞士企业的证据
Johannes Lehmann,Michael Beckmann
Johannes Lehmann
Using novel survey data from Swiss firms, this paper empirically examines the relationship between the use of digital technologies and the prevalence of performance incentives. We argue that digital technologies tend to reduce the cost of o...
Do mobile applications foster sustainable mobility? Evidence from a field experiment [0.03%]
基于实地实验的移动应用能促进可持续交通方式吗？
Alexander Goetz,Ioana Marinica,Harald Mayr et al.
Alexander Goetz et al.
Mobile applications hold promise to foster sustainable mobility behavior, but evaluations of their effectiveness are subject to a number of empirical challenges. We conduct a randomized controlled trial with three distinctive features: unob...
Mirjam Bächli,Hélène Benghalem,Doriana Tinello et al.
Mirjam Bächli et al.
Information friction makes it difficult for job seekers to find new employment opportunities. We propose a method for providing individual-specific occupation recommendations by ranking occupations based on their proximity to the worker's p...
Martin Brown,Matthias R Fengler,Jonas Huwyler et al.
Martin Brown et al.
Monitoring Consumption Switzerland is a public-private partnership between the University of St. Gallen and the payment companies Worldline and SIX that processes and publishes payment data on transactions in Switzerland processed by Wordli...
Covid-19 outbreak and beyond: a retrospect on the information content of short-time workers for GDP now- and forecasting [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情及其展望：短期工信息含量的回顾及对GDP现状与预测的影响
Sylvia Kaufmann
Sylvia Kaufmann
We document whether a simple, univariate model for quarterly GDP growth is able to deliver forecasts of yearly GDP growth in a crisis period like the Covid-19 pandemic, which may serve cross-checking forecasts obtained from elaborate and ex...
Gender effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Swiss labor market [0.03%]
COVID-19大流行在瑞士劳动力市场上产生的性别效应
Corinne Dubois,Luisa Lambertini,Yu Wu
Corinne Dubois
We study the impact of the pandemic on gender gaps in labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using the Swiss Labor Force Survey data, we document a significant increase in the gender gap in labor market participation. We find no evidence of ...
Economics and economists during the COVID-19 pandemic: a personal view [0.03%]
COVID-19大流行期间的经济学和经济学家：个人看法
Monika Bütler
Monika Bütler
As was true for many others, my professional life was turned upside down in the early days of the pandemic. The crisis touched almost every field in economics: international supply chains broke down, economic activity was heavily constraine...
Mohamad Hassan Abou Daya,Carole Bernard
Mohamad Hassan Abou Daya
We perform a simultaneous test for several rational and behavioral factors known to affect the uptake of life annuities in a sample of Americans. We also investigate whether analysts' short-term stock market expectations affect the decision...