Diese Studie präsentiert eine umfassende Auslegeordnung, wie sich die Covid-19-Pandemie entlang der Einkommensverteilung in der Schweiz ausgewirkt hat. Grundlage der Analyse sind sechs Befragungswellen des sotomo/SRF-Bevölkerungsmonitorings, welche die Situation der Haushalte in der Schweiz...

Der vorliegende Bericht an die Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation untersucht Rechtsfragen, die sich im Kontext der Genomeditierung am Menschen stellen. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine vergleichende Analyse der Regulierung in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, der Schweiz, den...

This paper measures the effect of a long-term career interruption on wages after re-employment. Using data from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and a fixed effects estimation method allows us to account for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity. We find a significant wage penalty of about 7% in...

Improvements in building's energy-efficiency hold considerable potential for decreasing energy consumption. Yet, renovations in the building stock could occur belatedly and without the coordination required for fully tapping the energy reduction potentials. In this paper, we use data from a...

This paper analyses the macroeconomic implications of a future shift in the age structure of the Swiss population. It estimates the long-run effects for Swiss GDP growth and its components in an Overlapping Generations Model (OLG model). Recent population projections by the Federal Statistical...

Using a mixed-method design, this study explores the heterogeneity in employment trajectories before and after the transition to lone parenthood in Switzerland. First, we perform sequence and cluster analysis on data from the Swiss Household panel to identify typical employment trajectories...

Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt eine Studie über multilokales Wohnen in der Schweiz vor, welche auf einer quantitativen Umfrage sowie auf qualitativen Fotobefragungen basiert. Ausgewählte Ergebnisse verdeutlichen die hohe Relevanz multilokalen Wohnens für verschiedene Facetten der...

Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at around 4%. The rate has remained at that level since the year 2000, despite a massive increase in the foreign labor force, the Great Recession, and a currency appreciation shock,...

Overcoming long-term unemployment is a challenging task in which trust of the long-term unemployed in their caseworkers is a key issue. However, research about drivers of this trust is a white spot in the literature. The paper closes this gap. Embedded in a theoretical model at the...

This paper analyses the macroeconomic implications of a future shift in the age structure of the Swiss population. It estimates the long-run effects for Swiss GDP growth and its components in an Overlapping Generations Model (OLG model). Recent population projections by the Federal Statistical...

Analyse der Schattenseiten von Homeoffice und Forderungen des Schweizerischen Gewerkschaftsbundes. Homeoffice ist ein wirksames Instrument zur Bekämpfung der Pandemie und für den Gesundheitsschutz der Arbeitnehmenden. Ausserdem geniesst freiwilliges und gut geregeltes Homeoffice oft breite...

Der Schweizer Finanzplatz zählt zu den Pionieren in Sustainable Finance und ist auf dem Weg, ein international führender Hub für Sustainable Finance zu werden. Der Begriff Sustainable Finance bezeichnet Finanzdienstleistungen, welche die ESG-Kriterien (Environment, Social und Governance) zum...

Improvements in building's energy-efficiency hold considerable potential for decreasing energy consumption. Yet, renovations in the building stock could occur belatedly and without the coordination required for fully tapping the energy reduction potentials. In this paper, we use data from a...

This paper provides an econometric analysis of the short-run impact of interest rates on the Swiss franc exchange rate covering the period January 2001 to June 2011 using daily data. Our model includes both the exchange rate of the Swiss franc against euro and dollar and uses the plausible...

From September 2011 to January 2015, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) implemented a minimum exchange rate regime (i.e. a one-sided target zone) vis-a-vis the euro to fight deflationary pressures in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. During this period of unconventional monetary policy,...

Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale administrative data, I exploit exogenous variation in unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find...

This paper focuses on three "safe haven" assets (gold, oil, and the Swiss Franc) and examines the impact of recent financial crises and some macroeconomic variables on their return co-movements during the last two decades. All financial crises produced significant increases in conditional...

Die COVID-19-Pandemie führt weltweit zu einem starken Konjunktureinbruch. Die vom Bundesrat Mitte März verordneten Massnahmen zur Eindämmung der Ansteckungen mit dem Sars-Cov-2-Virus haben die wirtschaftliche Aktivität in der Schweiz weiter eingeschränkt. Inzwischen ist die Ansteckungsrate...

Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in reducing early leaving from education and training, and integrating youth at risk in upper secondary education. To ensure that more young people complete upper secondary education, the OECD suggests designing interventions that...

We employ hourly electricity load data for Switzerland as a real time indicator of the economic effects of the lockdown following the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Our findings reveal that following the drastic lockdown, overall electricity use decreased by 4 per cent, with a reduction of even 11.3 per...

This paper presents scenarios of the shutdown costs in terms of lost value added for Austria, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and UK. The shutdown phase will lead to considerable production losses and large declines in GDP this year. Lasting longer than a month, the losses within the...

The ongoing demographic change is expected to negatively affect the effective labor supply of various developed countries. In order to counteract these developments, many suggested policy measures target the participation rate of women and old workers. In this paper, I develop a multi-sectoral...

Swiss climate policy consists of three regulatory instruments for greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A CO 2 levy, the Swiss Emissions Trading System (CH EHS), and an additional nonEHS" program for medium-sized plants that consists of command-and-control elements plus a sizeable abatement...

In the twenty-first century, taxation has become a major object of contestation in international political and economic relations and has given rise to attempts to establish global fiscal governance. In this way, the international community is trying to harness the power of multinational...

What determines small businesses' recourse to public support measures during the Covid-19 crisis? We analyse this question using a survey of 1,011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland, linked to information pre-dating the crisis. We find that "objective" measures of...

Today's world is characterized by globalization and international mobility, yet most democratic participation rights are still tied to traditional forms of citizenship. As a consequence, non-citizen are the largest group without franchise. We examine how citizens evaluate and react to the...

Die aktuellen Systeme der sozialen Sicherung stellen eine Antwort entwickelter Staaten auf die sozioökonomischen Bedingungen rasch wachsender Industriegesellschaften dar (hohe Wachstumsraten, stabile Erwerbsverhältnisse, junge Erwerbsbevölkerung etc.). Diese Bedingungen sind im 21....

Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt eine Studie über multilokales Wohnen in der Schweiz vor, welche auf einer quantitativen Umfrage sowie auf qualitativen Fotobefragungen basiert. Ausgewählte Ergebnisse verdeutlichen die hohe Relevanz multilokalen Wohnens für verschiedene Facetten der...

Angesichts der wachsenden klimapolitischen Herausforderungen streben mittlerweile viele Länder Europas bis zum Jahr 2050 eine Dekarbonisierung an, das heißt den Ausstieg aus der Nutzung fossiler Energieträger. Vor diesem Hintergrund präsentiert dieser Beitrag Prognosen des Energiebedarfs und...

Konjunkturprognosen unterliegen derzeit einer ungewöhnlich hohen Unsicherheit. Jeden Tag werden neue Massnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie angekündigt. Es herrscht nicht nur Unklarheit über die aktuelle und künftige Ausbreitung des Virus, sondern auch über staatliche...