Michael Siegenthaler

ETH Zürich
KOF Swiss Economic Institute

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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
March 2025 - Working Paper33558
Author(s) - Leah Boustan, Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Ran Abramitzky, Elisa Jácome, Alan Manning, Santiago Pérez, Analysia Watley, Adrian Adermon, Jaime Arellano-Bover, Olof Åslund, Marie Connolly, Nathan Deutscher, Anne C. Gielen, Yvonne Giesing, Yajna Govind, Martin Halla, Dominik Hangartner, Yuyan Jiang, Cecilia Karmel, Fanny Landaud, Lindsey Macmillan, Isabel Z. Martínez, Alberto Polo, Panu Poutvaara, Hillel Rapoport, Sara Roman, Kjell G. Salvanes, Shmuel San, Michael Siegenthaler, Louis Sirugue, Javier Soria Espín, Jan Stuhler, Giovanni L. Violante, Dinand Webbink, Andrea Weber, Jonathan Zhang, Angela Zheng & Tom Zohar
We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document large income gaps for first-generation immigrants that diminish in the second generation. Around half of the second-generation gap can be explained by differences in parental income,...
The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland
December 2018 - Working Paper25302
Author(s) - Andreas Beerli, Jan Ruffner, Michael Siegenthaler & Giovanni Peri
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays
May 2018 - Working Paper24634
Author(s) - Isabel Z. Martinez, Emmanuel Saez & Michael Siegenthaler
This paper estimates intertemporal labor supply responses to two-year long income tax holidays staggered across Swiss cantons. Cantons shifted from an income tax system based on the previous two years' income to a standard annual pay as you earn system, leaving two years of income untaxed. We find...
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