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Recent Papers

"The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States."
(with David Autor and Gordon Hanson), August 2011.

"The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market."
(with David Autor), June 2011.

"Price and Prejudice: The Interaction between Preferences and Incentives in the Dynamics of Racial Segregation."
January 2010.

"This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure."
(with David Autor), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), 45-51, 2009.

Publications, pre-PhD

"'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement: An International Analysis" (with Alfonso Sousa-Poza), Applied Economics 42(4): 427-438, 2010.

"Direct Democracy and Life Satisfaction Revisited: New Evidence for Switzerland" (with Justina Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner and Alfonso Sousa-Poza), Journal of Happiness Studies 9(2): 227-251, 2008.

"Is It Culture or Democracy? The Impact of Democracy and Culture on Happiness" (with Justina Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner and Alfonso Sousa-Poza), Social Indicators Research 82(3): 505-526, 2007.

"The Determinants of Early Retirement in Switzerland" (with Alfonso Sousa-Poza), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 141(2): 247-283, 2005.

"Why is the Employment Rate of Older Swiss so High? An Institutional Analysis" (with Alfonso Sousa-Poza), Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 28: 652-674, 2003.

Books

Die Berechnung des Erwerbsschadens (The Computation of Earnings Damages in Liability Cases; with Michael Graf, Thomas Geiser and Alfonso Sousa-Poza), Berne: Stämpfli, pp. 178, 2008.

An Empirical Analysis of Early Retirement. Switzerland in an International Comparison Berne-Stuttgart-Vienna: Haupt, pp. 116, 2004.

Neugründungen von innovativen Kleinstunternehmen. Probleme ihrer Realisierung. (Innovative Business Ventures: Challenges for Start-Ups; with Stefan Graf, Fred Henneberger and Hans Schmid), Berne-Stuttgart-Vienna: Haupt, pp. 178, 2001.