Michael Siegenthaler

Senior Scientist

Project Leader

Michael Siegenthaler is labor market specialist and the head of the research division Swiss labor market at KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich. He is also a research affiliate of the Immigration Policy Lab at ETH and a research fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics IZA. He received a PhD from ETH Zurich, a Master of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Bern.

Michael Siegenthaler’s research interests are labor economics, migration, and empirical macroeconomics. A recurrent topic is the factors and policies that shape firms’ demand for workers. He has, for instance, studied the effects of minimum wages, immigration restrictions, short-time work, and exchange rates on labor demand. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Nature, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His position as labor market specialist entails policy advising, forecasting, and media work.

Project
Ethnic Hiring Discrimination in Times of Crisis

Contact
Email, T +41 44 633 93 67

KOF Swiss Economic Institute
ETH Zurich
Leonhardstrasse 21
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Michael Siegenthaler

Senior Scientist

Project Leader

Michael Siegenthaler is labor market specialist and the head of the research division Swiss labor market at KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich. He is also a research affiliate of the Immigration Policy Lab at ETH and a research fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics IZA. He received a PhD from ETH Zurich, a Master of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Bern.

Michael Siegenthaler’s research interests are labor economics, migration, and empirical macroeconomics. A recurrent topic is the factors and policies that shape firms’ demand for workers. He has, for instance, studied the effects of minimum wages, immigration restrictions, short-time work, and exchange rates on labor demand. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Nature, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His position as labor market specialist entails policy advising, forecasting, and media work.

Project
Ethnic Hiring Discrimination in Times of Crisis

Contact
Email, T +41 44 633 93 67

KOF Swiss Economic Institute
ETH Zurich
Leonhardstrasse 21
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

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