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Contributions published at Macroeconomics and Labor Markets (Josef Zweimüller)

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Roland Toth, Economic Inequality and Environmental Degradation, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Vuk Stokanic, Time Use Over the Business Cycle, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Luca Duelli, Determinanten der Entscheidung über die Registrierung auf den regionalen Arbeitsvermittlungszentren in der Schweiz: Die Rolle der Kultur, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Tobias Renkin, Business Cycles with non-homothetic preferences, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Master's Thesis) null
Moritz Fischer, ¨The impact of the Federal Law on Financial Support for Child Care on the regional availability of child care and female labor supply, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Master's Thesis) null
Susanne Felder, Eine Analyse der Einstellungen zu Migrationsfragen von Schweizer Politikern, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Master's Thesis) null
Mattia Farei-Campagna, Kurzarbeit: Ein geeignetes Instrument in der Krise?, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Simone Voumard, Ausbildungssystem und Jugendarbeitslosigkeit, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Master's Thesis) null
Tommaso Operto, Intellectual property rights, technology transfer, and trade, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Master's Thesis) null
Thomas Lehmann, Die Integration der Europäischen Märkte – Die Auswirkungen der EU-Osterweiterung mit Fokus auf den Arbeitsmarkt, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Andreas Itten, The decline in u.S. Household saving: micro versus macro evidence, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Renzo Iten, Die Entwicklung der Mittelklasse in den OECD Ländern, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Andreas Kuhn, Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries, In: Working paper series / Department of Economics, No. 84, 2012. (Working Paper) This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is positively (negatively) correlated with redistributive preferences. There is also evidence showing that the subjective and objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes, however, once more fundamental country characteristics are taken into account. This suggests that these characteristics explain both redistributive preferences as well as the effective level of redistribution and after tax-and-transfer inequality.
Marc Koller, Die Produktzyklustheorie, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Ivo Schurtenberger, Die Wechselkursentwicklungen des Schweizer Frankens und ihr Effekt auf die Leistungsbilanz», University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Master's Thesis) null
Andreas Kohler, Trade and growth in an unequal global economy, In: Working paper series / Department of Economics, No. 81, 2012. (Working Paper) This paper studies the patterns of trade and the incentives to innovate in an unequal global economy. We introduce non-homothetic preferences in a general-equilibrium model of endogenous growth and international trade between two countries, and argue that the effects of market integration on the consequent trade patterns and the incentives to innovate depend on the degree of income inequality across countries. We find that if inequality across countries is low, the extensive margin of trade between countries is high whereas the world growth rate is low. The introduction of non-homothetic preferences rises a number of interesting questions that are not an issue in the standard model. For example, we discuss the design of intellectual property rights, in particular national vs. international exhaustion of patents, and argue that households in poor and rich countries might not see eye to eye depending on how poor households weigh future losses in consumption against present gains. Furthermore, we address the welfare consequences of a trade liberalization, and show that households in the poor country might loose relative to households in the rich country if trade costs fall from a high to a sufficiently low level.
Christian Kiedaisch, Intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model with persistent leadership, In: Working paper series / Department of Economics, No. 78, 2012. (Working Paper) This article analyzes the effects of intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model in which incumbent firms preemptively innovate in order to keep their position of leadership. Unlike in models with leapfrogging, granting non-expiring forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a non-obviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation rate.
Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller, Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?, In: Working paper series / Department of Economics, No. 20, 2012. (Working Paper) Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10.1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men and women. Spillover effects had substantial fiscal implications. Absent spillover effects, the reduction of net government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and associated foregone income tax revenues the actual reduction was only 148 million Euros. High-wage and healthy workers carried the bulk of the fall in net government expenditures. Low-wage and less healthy workers generated much less government savings as they either continue to retire early via disability pensions or bridge the gap to regular retirement by drawing unemployment benefits.
Marius Faber, The effects of the EU accession by central and Eastern European countries on the patterns of trade, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2012. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Sandro Favre, Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller, Steigende Bildungsanforderungen an den Mittelstand, In: Der strapazierte Mittelstand. Zwischen Ambition, Anspruch und Ernüchterung, Avenir Suisse und Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, p. 123 - 148, 2012. (Book Chapter)

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