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Achieving higher wages by changing jobs – JANZZ.jobs also factors in salary expectations

According to the recently published employment barometer from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), the employment rate in Switzerland has risen by 1.9 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year.  » Read more about: Achieving higher wages by changing jobs – JANZZ.jobs also factors in salary expectations  »

Nobel Prize in economics 2012 awarded for insights into the topic of matching

Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth received the Nobel Prize in economics 2012 (link in german) for their “theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design” (link in german).  » Read more about: Nobel Prize in economics 2012 awarded for insights into the topic of matching  »

Working life in Switzerland – parallel jobs becoming more common.

Growing numbers of working people in Switzerland hold several jobs at the same time. Such is the finding of the study “Mehrfacherwerbstätigkeit in der Schweiz” (multiple job-holding in Switzerland) by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO).  » Read more about: Working life in Switzerland – parallel jobs becoming more common.  »

Nobel Prize in economics awarded for work on problems of matching.

Americans Peter A. Diamond and Dale T. Mortensen and dual British/Cypriot citizen Christopher A. Pissarides have won the 2010 Nobel Prize in economics.  » Read more about: Nobel Prize in economics awarded for work on problems of matching.  »