Simon Zuzek

Simon Zuzek

About

I’m a Data Scientist at Google, where I work on Ads-related products. Prior to that, I was at Sunrise GmbH, applying causal inference and advanced analytics to support data-driven decision-making across the organization.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich. My academic research focused on life-cycle inequality and labor market policy. You can find a selection of my work below.

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Amazon Entry on Amazon Marketplace
We study the effect of Amazon products competing with 3rd-party products on marketplace by using a staggered diff-in-diff design for Amazon entry. We find that Amazon entry is associated with modest positive effects on both consumer and third-party merchant outcomes, which are more consistent with mild market expansion than with appropriating third-party sales.
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Amazon Entry on Amazon Marketplace
Amenities and Job Mobility over the Life Cycle
I explore job mobility and earnings growth using detailed administrative data of Asutrian social security records. I uncover that earnings growth slows around age 30, after which job changes are increasingly less about higher pay. Using voluntary job transitions, I establish a preference ranking over firms and use it to estimate the role of systematic non-pay benefits, or ‘amenities’, in career moves. This study offers a fresh perspective on labor economics, emphasizing the importance of non-monetary factors in our career decisions.
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Amenities and Job Mobility over the Life Cycle
Optimal Short-Time Work: Screening for Jobs at Risk
Short-time work - a job retention subsidy conditional on hour reductions - has become an important policy tool despite a lack of agreement on which market failures it addresses. To fill the gap, we use Optimal-control theory to develop a model of job retention policies in the presence of asymmetric information. When individual productivity shocks are not observable, short-time work helps to target subsidies towards jobs at risk.
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Optimal Short-Time Work: Screening for Jobs at Risk

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