Archive: Patrik Schellenbauer

Dr. Patrik Schellenbauer was Deputy Director of Avenir Suisse and together with the director responsible for the program of the think tank. He was also a lecturer in real estate and urban economics at ETH Zurich and the University of Applied Sciences Zurich. Before serving as head of financial engineering economics unit at Zürcher Kantonalbank, he gained professional experience as senior assistant at ETH Zurich.

Switzerland White Paper

Six sketches for the future

30.05.2018, Peter Grünenfelder, Patrik Schellenbauer, Patrick Dümmler, Jennifer Anthamatten, Verena Parzer-Epp, Marco Salvi, Jakob Schaad, Fabian Schnell, Urs Steiner

Excellence, not Regional Politics, at Swiss Universities

A 10 Points Plan for Competitive Higher Education

17.01.2018, Matthias Ammann, Patrik Schellenbauer, Peter Grünenfelder, Jennifer Anthamatten

Big Challenges in Education

Switzerland needs to adapt its schools, universities and vocational training system to reap the benefits of globalisation

10.01.2018, Patrik Schellenbauer

Similarities between the OECD’s and Avenir Suisse’s Key Statements

Constructive use of external perspectives

21.12.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer

The Swiss Labor Market Attractiveness Is Overrated

Focus on digitalization, individual taxation, reconciliation between work and private life, and training policy

01.12.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer

Motivated Teachers Prevail Over Money

In Switzerland, expenditure on education exceeds revenues

29.08.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer

The Struggle for Urban Housing

Bye bye baby-boomers ! Seniors want to live in the city again and they have money to spend !

31.07.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer

Die Berufsfachschule Baden, 1952 von als BBC-Personalhaus von Armin Meili erbaut. (Wikimedia Commons)

Combining Efforts for Switzerland’s Higher Education System

Switzerland could become an important global exporter of higher education.

28.02.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer

Migration or the Challenge of Explaining Counterfactual Evidence

Think Tank Summit Chief economist Patrik Schellenbauer on global migration

01.02.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer

The New Reality of Global Trade

Analyzing the economic consequences of the US presidential elections: A Swiss perspective

14.12.2016, Peter Grünenfelder, Patrik Schellenbauer, Patrick Dümmler, Fabian Schnell, Marco Salvi

Bad News for the Swiss

Post Brexit scenarios for Switzerland

18.08.2016, Patrik Schellenbauer

Bilateralism – what else?

Autonomy despite dependence

07.12.2015, Patrik Schellenbauer und Gerhard Schwarz (Ed.), with contributions from Alois Bischofberger, Peter Buomberger, Astrid Epiney, Daniel Gros, Urs Meister, Daniel Müller-Jentsch and Rudolf Walser

Gender Equality

Why the Labour Market Hasn’t Failed

18.11.2015, Marco Salvi with Monika Engler, Verena Parzer Epp, Patrik Schellenbauer and Claudia Wirz

Free Choice of Schools Raises Educational Standards

The free choice of schooling has been more of a struggle in Switzerland than in other countries, although it would counteract the current segregated system based on place of residence. Greater competition among schools would improve educational standards too.

20.07.2015, Patrik Schellenbauer

Die Schweizer Berufsbildung ist ein Erfolgsrezept, wie kann man sie in der Zukunft fit halten? Avenir Suisse

Swiss Vocational Training: Proud, but not Perfect

Swiss vocational training retains a strong reputation and image as a solid, practical start to a career - even for brighter or more talented teenagers. Bucking something of a European trend towards greater academic qualificatons, two thirds of youngsters enrol in vocational programmes, with the figure reaching 75 per cent in eastern Switzerland.

17.06.2014, Patrik Schellenbauer

Overall target rather than quotas

How the immigration initiative target can be met while preserving the free movement of persons

15.05.2014, Patrik Schellenbauer

Managed Immigration

Switzerland’s referendum vote to curb immigration has prompted questions about how a quota based system could be implemented. A new Avenir Suisse special publication examines and rates administrative and price-based options. The comparisons reveal an auction system would be the “least bad” alternative.

08.04.2014, Gerhard Schwarz, Urs Meister und Patrik Schellenbauer (Publishers)

The Overall Target: Less Immigration in Spite Of the Free Movement of Persons

Switzerland does not have to break its accords with the European Union on the free movement of persons to meet the aims of the “Masseneinwanderungsinitiative” (the successful February referendum on limiting immigration, ed). Instead, immigration could be curbed bindingly and durably by a 10 year “overall target” (ie. cap) on…

03.03.2014, Patrik Schellenbauer, Gerhard Schwarz