Published Papers
Train drain? The availability of foreign workers and firms' willingness to train, Labour Economics, 2023, 85(12), 102436 (joint with Maria Esther Egg).
The pass-through of minimum wages into US retail prices: Evidence from supermarket scanner data, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5): 890–908 (joint with Claire Montialoux and Tobias Renkin). Slides.
Monitoring hiring discrimination through online recruitment platforms, Nature, 2021, 589(7843), 572–576, lead article (joint with Daniel Kopp and Dominik Hangartner). Here is a video summary, a summary in the LSE Business review, and the replication materials. This project was financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers: Evidence from Switzerland, American Economic Review, 2021, 111(3), 976-1012 (joint with Andreas Beerli, Jan Ruffner, and Giovanni Peri). Slides, replication files, and a video summary.
Intertemporal labor supply substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holiday, American Economic Review, 2021, 111(2), 506–546 (joint with Isabel Martinez and Emmanuel Saez). Slides, replication files, and VoxEU and ökonomenstimme columns.
Short-Time Work and Unemployment in and after the Great Recession, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19(4) (joint with Daniel Kopp). Link to related policy report and German summary in Die Volkswirtschaft.
Do immigrants take or create residents' jobs? Evidence from free movement of workers in Switzerland, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121(3), 994-1019 (joint with Christoph Basten). Overview article on the labor market effects of immigration in Switzerland.
The effect of policy uncertainty on investment plans. Evidence from the unexpected acceptance of a far-reaching referendum in Switzerland, European Economic Review, 2018, 104(5), 38–67 (joint with Klaus Abberger, Andreas Dibiasi and Jan-Egbert Sturm). Working paper. Related KOF study.
The skill-biased effects of exchange rate fluctuations, The Economic Journal, 2016, 126(592), 756–780 (joint with Boris Kaiser). Feature in the LSE Business Review.
Dividing the pie: firm-level determinants of the labor share, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(5), 1157–1194 (joint with Tobias Stucki). Press release by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Discussed by David Dorn here and here. Related KOF Analyse.
Has Switzerland really been marked by low productivity growth? Hours worked and labor productivity in Switzerland in a long-run perspective, Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 61(2), 353–372. Summary and update for "Social Change in Switzerland". Press release by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Related KOF Analyse. Download hours worked data.