Now online at the QJE in its final version: "Worker Beliefs about Outside Options" w/ Simon Jäger , Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille Link to PDF: academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

Enthusiastically explaining people from the Swiss gov and the online-job platform providers all the cool things I do with the data they give me 😃 @ Shaping Digital Job Search Strategies and Outcomes workshop with academics and practitioners, by KOF HEC Lausanne

Die #Vermögensungleichheit in der 🇨🇭 liegt auf Rekordniveau: Dem obersten Prozent gehören nunmehr 44% der deklarierten Privatvermögen. Einflussreiche Stimmen spielen diesen Befund als unwesentlich herab. Sie machen es sich etwas einfach. Ein 🧵 1/

Why do people vote against environmental policies with large welfare benefits? How can the financing of these policies affect their political viability? This is what Russell Cooper and I study in our work in progress and summarized for the LaFonte Blog 👇

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Double standards bei NZZ Wirtschaft: Klar deklarierter Auftraggeber bestellt sorgfältige Datenarbeit bei ausgewiesener Forscherin. NGO pflanzt fälschlicherweise das ETH-Logo auf die hinterste Seite ihres eigenen Berichts. => Entrüstung Ganz anders,... 1/4 nzz.ch/wirtschaft/ums…

CH labour market cooling off after post-covid surge in vacancy posting Festure based on our swissjobtracker.ch in the TV today at SRF Tagesschau srf.ch/news/wirtschaf…

I am very excited to see my paper "The geographic effects of carbon pricing" published in the EER! Here is the link to the paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jZif3F%7Ea%…

I defended my PhD and had a long, super nice holiday and I am extremely excited to continue my research at CREST (UMR 9194) in a few weeks 🥳 I will be working with Roland Rathelot on information frictions in hiring

Very proud of our recent PhD graduate Nicola Mauri Nicola Mauri publishing his single-authored paper straight at the Journal of Public Economics.🍾 Using theory and a clever empirical test, he finds that local governments have less fiscal autonomy than what the fiscal data could make you believe. 1/2

Great to see this 'in print'...

Locations EALE conference could be worse… I will present tmrw morning about - which workers look at which jobs? differences between, genders, educ levels etc? - What are the implications of different search scopes? Happy to see many of you there :D (job search session)

My PhD supervisor Michael Siegenthaler is hiring 2 new phds Amazing data and imo topics are super interesting within & outside of academia working with the labor econ team KOF is super constructive & pleasant jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/9417?… Feel free to reach out for questions!

A new paper on the role of job recommendations...

🚨 Updated paper alert! 🚨 Switzerland, the world’s most infamous tax haven, has seen a strong shift in tax compliance. How? A global crackdown on offshore tax evasion: the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI). 🌍💰 Here’s what I found 👇 (🧵)

This is now out at the Review of Economics and Statistics: Vacancy Durations and Wages. direct.mit.edu/rest/article/d…

Une réforme de l'assurance chômage qui a touché la vie des personnes...

This figure is striking. It shows the relationship between where people think they are in the income distribution and where they actually are. Observations below the line indicate that people think they are poorer than they really are (and the reverse above the line). What

Our report on the effect of unemployment benefit sanctions on job search and re-employment is out. (DE / FR). Joint work with Rafael Lalive, P. Arni, M. Wolf & B. Kaiser Disclaimer for the football fans: the referee on the pic is not representative of my views or opinions in any way

New study for🇨🇭econ ministery: Sanctioning the unemployed for misbehavior (cutting benefits) is usually followed up by stricter job application requirements & makes them search more However, the jobs they find are worse.. w/Rafael Lalive B. Kaiser M. Wolf seco.admin.ch/dam/seco/de/do…