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A Real Time Evaluation of Employment Forecasts in Switzerland
Graff, Michael - 2012
We evaluate nowcasts and one- to four-quarter-ahead forecasts of Swiss full time equivalent jobs from 1998q1–2011q4, comparing forecasts of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs with the outcome of the reference series. Both forecasts are biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098262
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A real time evaluation of employment forecasts in Switzerland
Graff, Michael; Mannino, Massimo; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2012
We evaluate nowcasts and one- to four-quarter-ahead forecasts of Swiss full time equivalent jobs from 1998-2011, comparing forecasts of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs with the outcome of the reference series. Both forecasts are biased downward,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319710
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The Swiss 'Job Miracle'
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2014
While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for … consequence of the “miracle”, but also an important cause, as it created additional jobs in Switzerland by raising local demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040487
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Do Immigrants Take or Create Residents’ Jobs? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Switzerland
Basten, Christoph - 2013
We estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of resident employees in Switzerland, whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080995
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Can a standardized aptitude test predict training success of apprentices? Evidence from a case study in Switzerland
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2011
From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277776
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A view on the long-run evolution of hours worked and labor productivity in Switzerland (1950 - 2010)
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2012
The discussion about the long-run evolution of labor productivity in Switzerland is flawed because the available data … series of total hours worked covering 1950-2010. The new data indicates that hours worked in Switzerland have been nearly … consequence, Switzerland's performance in terms of labor productivity growth has been underestimated in previous work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319698
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Do immigrants take or create residents' jobs? Quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland
Basten, Christoph Carl; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013
We estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of resident employees in Switzerland, whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319716
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Do competitively acquired funds induce public research institutions to behave efficiently?
Bolli, Thomas; Somogyi, Frank - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of public and private third-party funds on the effciency of departments of Swiss public research institutions. Estimating an output distance function assuming that labor is used to produce master students and scientific publications, we find no statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285837
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Tax competition and income sorting: Evidence from the Zurich metropolitan area
Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Somogyi, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2009
In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually set tax multipliers thereby shifting the progressive tax scheme which is fixed at the cantonal (state) level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285851
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Covid-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland: Evaluation and outlook
Brülhart, Marius; Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias; … - 2020
question using a survey of 1,011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland, linked to information pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546038