Archive: Labour market

Borderless Innovation

Hannah’s Insights on labor migration

29.09.2023, Hannah Wise

Hung Over After Birthday Celebrations?

The Swiss three-pillar system has turned 50. Despite changes in society and the labor market it’s aged well, but it still needs rejuvenation.

29.09.2023, Jérôme Cosandey

Innovation without Borders

The Importance of Labor Migration for Innovation in Switzerland

13.09.2023, Patrick Leisibach, Patrick Schnell, Laurenz Grabher

Paradoxical Minimum Wages

Essentials on the topic of the labor market

24.07.2023, Patrick Leisibach

Reducing Barriers to Global Talent

Parliament wants to facilitate the transition of foreign university graduates into the labor market. This decision is sensible. However, more challenging debates await.

21.06.2023, Patrick Leisibach

Equality Policy at an Impasse

Commentary of the Week Companies could now be sanctioned if suspected of pay discrimination. Yet again, the Swiss National Council is serving a dubious narrative that harms the cause of equality

30.05.2023, Lukas Schmid, Patrick Leisibach

Taxes in the Age of Chatbots

Digitization and automation are changing the economy. But that does not mean the tax system has to be reinvented.

24.04.2023, Lukas Schmid, Patrick Leisibach

Wage Protection Doesn’t Actually Protect

Hannah’s Insights on the efficiency of wage protection

30.11.2022, Hannah Wise

Who Do Wage Protections Protect?

Why the State Can – and Should – Dispense with Wage Policy

17.11.2022, Marco Salvi, Patrick Leisibach, Patrick Schnell

Future-Oriented Widowers’ and Widows’ Benefits

What next after the ECtHR’s criticism of unequal AHV/AVS benefits for survivors?

31.10.2022, Jérôme Cosandey

Let’s Not Thwart Flexible Work Arrangements

When it comes to platform work it’s best to seize opportunities rather than fight change

28.06.2022, Patrick Leisibach

Staff Wanted!

Commentary of the Week The time has come to think about alternatives to the bureaucratic quota system for third-country workers

28.06.2022, Patrick Leisibach, Marco Salvi

Do We Really Want to Work Less?

Distributing working hours over our lifetime could be an interesting alternative to the four-day week

26.04.2022, Marco Salvi

Vacancies Are Increasingly Difficult to Fill

Matching job offers to job seekers became harder during the pandemic

30.11.2021, Valérie Müller

Stop Shopping Tourism?

The reasons for shopping abroad are home grown

30.11.2021, Patrick Dümmler

Covid-19’s Consequences for the Swiss Labor Market

While Switzerland has had a relatively ‘mild’ crisis, state intervention has gone too far

29.10.2021, Haig Simonian

Fully Fit?

The Consequences of the Coronavirus Pandemic for the Swiss Labor Market

29.10.2021, Marco Salvi, Valérie Müller, Patrick Schnell

Continuing Swiss Industry’s Success Story

Embracing structural change rather than fighting it

08.10.2021, Darius Farman, Jérôme Cosandey, Samuel Rutz

A “Digital Micro-Company” for Switzerland

Analysis How a new legal structure could boost the digitization of public administration and simplify life for Swiss companies

30.09.2021, Jürg Müller, Basil Ammann

Switzerland’s Unions Must Become More Transparent

Focus of the month Increasing politicization means era of opacity must end

29.06.2021, Haig Simonian

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