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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 commentary. A study by KOF Swiss Economic Institute has shown that a person with a recognisable migrant background from the Balkans, Africa or Asia has a 20% lower chance of being invited to an inter-view than a non-migrant applicant, even if they have exactly the same qualifications in terms of degrees, language skills and work experience.

On 20 September, more than 170 MSc and MAS students began their studies at D-MTEC. They received information about their programmes and familiarised themselves with the new COVID certificate requirement, which opens the way back to in-person teaching.

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 commentary. The widespread use of a particular cultivation method does not necessarily indicate success in terms of all ecosystem services, says Robert Finger, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy. Instead, food production, climate protection and biodiversity should be measured more clearly, and form the focus of our public policies.

D-MTEC aims to offer a research-based and practice-oriented education involving work on real-life cases that will prepare students for their future careers. In line with this goal, two new courses have been launched this semester.

Economists tend to prefer taxing investment income more heavily than earned income. This is a key finding of a recent expert survey by KOF Swiss Economic Institute and the NZZ.

Dr Isabel Martinez from KOF Swiss Economic Institute says that the top 0.01 percent of Swiss population holds about 10 percent of its wealth – twice as much as in the nineties.