Daycare Subsidies: Expensive but Ineffective? The idea behind flat-rate childcare allowances is to help mothers join the workforce — but their impact is minor, especially when distributed indiscriminately. 30.06.2025, Patricia Schafer
Poverty in a Wealthy Country: 3 Questions, 3 Answers A closer look beyond the statistics shows that poverty is often temporary and closely linked to unemployment. 29.04.2025, Patrick Leisibach
Full-time vs. Part-time: Do We Need New Incentives in Switzerland? The progression of income tax does not explain the increase in part-time employment. 19.12.2024, Marco Salvi
Flexibility Is Also the Trump Card in the Age of AI Artificial intelligence is making inroads into complex and knowledge-intensive tasks that were previously reserved for humans. Is state intervention necessary? (Part 2) 31.10.2024, Patrick Schnell, Marco Salvi
Future-Proof Jobs? How AI Is Influencing the Swiss Labor Market Artificial intelligence has arrived on the job market. A first model analysis shows: Managers are likely to benefit from the technologies, while office workers are more likely to face competition. (Part 1) 31.10.2024, Patrick Schnell, Marco Salvi
Choosing a Career: One Step Closer to Gender Equality Progress and Tenacious Trends 23.05.2024, Marco Salvi, Patrick Schnell
Counterproductive Quota-Based Policy Switzerland should be making better use of global talent — without opening its borders too much. 22.12.2023, Patrick Leisibach
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
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 Quicktakes 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