D-MTEC Media Update – Covid-19 and the wealth gap
D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Corona is likely to reinforce existing inequalities in income, wealth, education and also with regard to gender, says Isabel Martinez of KOF Swiss Economic Institute. KOF also has lowered its forecast for GDP growth in 2021 from 3.2 to 2.1 percent.
The Swiss wealth gap in focus
Isabel Martinez | KOF Swiss Economic Institute
- 04.02.2021 | SRF DOK | German | external page Video
Lockdown expected for retail & mobility decline
Jan-Egbert Sturm | KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Researchers expect retail lockdown extending into second quarter
- 04.02.2021 | tagesanzeiger.ch | German | external page Text
Mobility declines, but not as much as in March 2020
- 02.02.2021 | Radio SRF 1, Regionaljournal | German | external page Audio
Apprentices face learning gaps
Ursula Renold | Chair of Education Systems
- 04.02.2021 | Neue Zürcher Zeitung | German | external page Text
- 04.02.2021 | blick.ch | German | external page Text
- 30.01.2021 | Neue Zürcher Zeitung | German | external page Text
Click-rates on a job platform reveal bias
Michael Siegenthaler | KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Daniel Kopp | KOF Swiss Economic Institute
- 31.01.2021 | NZZ am Sonntag | German | external page Text
external page Original article published in Nature
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