PhD Economics student @ Uni Zürich, previously MPhil Econ @ Oxford University. Interested in Labour Economics, Econometrics, ML. Handle the same as elsewhere
Join my outstanding research team in Zurich as a #predoc research associate in summer/fall 2025! We conduct empirical analyses of labor markets, globalization, technology and politics. More info and link to application: 🔗https://t.co/LEl9WDxIcH
@econ_ra@predoc_org@econ_uzh
🎉 Congratulations to Damian Osterwalder who has successfully defended his PhD Thesis: "Understanding the Dynamics of Labor Markets: Unemployment, Vacancies, and Wage Formation".
Damian's thesis addresses three key questions related to job search: how to optimally insure unemployed workers in the context of repeated unemployment, how vacancy stocks fluctuate over the business cycle, and how starting wages influence the duration of vacancies.
Damian has recently joined the @SNB_BNS (Statistics Division).👏
We wish all the best for the future! 😀
Beobachtung aus der Klinik: Seit 5 Jahren behandeln wir durch COVID-19 eine zusätzliche Anzahl von Infektpatienten, auch Personal fällt dadurch zusätzlich aus. Das Virus bringt seit 2020 zusätzliche Krankheitsfälle. Dieser ASPEKT kommt in der Debatte um den Krankenstand zu kurz.
Mieten fallen, sobald man baut. Zürich und die SP und Grünen können sehr viel von Austin lernen. Wohnungen bauen gegen Wohnungsnot! Es braucht keine Genossenschaften, es braucht neue Häuser. Bei der ständigen hohe Zuwanderung gilt das doppelt.
🎉Thrilled to share my #JMP🎉
It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation.
Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners.
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#JMP Alert #EconTwitter
Restful activities can boost productivity, allowing you to earn more by working less. But do people get this trade-off right? In my JMP, we show they don’t.
https://t.co/hUzplqDqwF
Zurich PhD student Guohui Jiang (https://t.co/0afVmN0oaB) is on the market (yay!) and has a kick-ass JMP. He shows that fairness REALLY matters for voluntary, costly actions. Using data from the WW2 draft, he first shows that Americans thought conscription was implemented
So much to celebrate at our department @econ_uzh today!
@DinaPomeranz successfully passed our vote for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. @Todd_A_Hare and @jakub_steiner will be promoted to Full Professor.
I feel honored to report that I was asked to join the editorial board of @RevEconStudies as an associate editor. I look forward to working with the managing editors and the members of the editorial board, and to contribute to the continued success and excellence of one of the very best journals in our profession.
📢We're thrilled to welcome @da_oster from @econ_uzh tomorrow for a public economics and policy seminar. He'll present: "Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Repeated Unemployment". Don't miss this insightful discussion!🌟 #EconomicsSeminar
👉 Details: https://t.co/SNpRkcxRh5
Policymakers often need to design policies quickly in the face of crises, but analysis required for evidence-based policymaking is published with a big lag.
So what can researchers do help?
A thread on a new paper with my wonderful coauthors @fetzert and @PalmouChristina 1/
Toxoplasma (🐈 parasite) alters host behavior to go from rats to cats to breed; it makes rats take risks so they get eaten by cats
And it may impact people: students with it are 180% more likely start ventures & infected founders have 8% more revenue. (It is bad for health, too)
🚀New working paper out! “Low Depression Zones? The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Pollution and Mental Health” with @johannesbrehm, Henri Gruhl & Robin Kottmann. @RWI_Leibniz_en@DIW_Berlin
👇short summary here
Great quotes...can not agree more. And of course, what is alienating, this culture was brought to Brussels. And of course, I understand that the only sword the EU can wield is that of being the protector of the treaties. But modern statecraft requires experimentation, it requires
«Ein Leben ohne Politik kann ich mir nicht vorstellen» - so werde ich in der @AargauerZeitung zitiert. Ich möchte mich für einen sicheren Aargau & eine starke Zukunft einsetzen & kandidiere deswegen für den Grossen Rat.
Am 20. Oktober Anna Staub wählen!
https://t.co/Priwz92PQJ