Isabel Z. Martínez November 2015 INSTITUTIONAL ADDRESS PERSONAL INFORMATION University of St. Gallen SIAW Date of Birth: February 10, 1986 Bodanstrasse 8 Place of Birth: Bern, Switzerland CH-9000 St. Gallen Nationalities: Swiss and Spanish +41 (0)71 224 23 50 isabel.martinez@unisg.ch RESEARCH INTERESTS: Public Economics, Regional Economics, Labor Economics, with a special interest in taxation, and income and wealth inequality ACADEMIC EDUCATION expected 05/2016 Ph.D. Candidate in Economics University of St. Gallen Program in International Affairs and Political Economy (DIA), Thesis: Three Essays on Income Inequality and Taxation in Switzerland 01/2015 04/2016 Visiting Student Researcher University of California, Berkeley Doc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation 09/2011 MA in Economics University of Bern, Grade: 5.56/6 VBW Excellence Award for MA Thesis in Economics and Business Administration Thesis: Top Income Shares in Switzerland Assessing the Evolution Between 1985 and 2007 Based on Tax Data, Grade: 6/6. 09/2009 BA in Economics and Political Science University of Bern, Grade: 5.26/6 Erasmus Scholarship (2 Semesters) Free University Berlin Additional Courses at Ph.D. Level 06/2015 Social and Labour market Policy Evaluation with Administrative Data, LISER Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 07/2013 Barcelona GSE Summer School in Labor Economics The Distribution of Labor Earnings, Prof. Derek Neal (University of Chicago and NBER) 09/2012 Courses from the Ph.D. Program in Economics and Finance (PEF), 06/2013 University of St. Gallen 07/2012 Stata Summer Workshop at the Luxembourg Income Studies (LIS) Data Centre, Luxembourg EMPLOYMENT since 01/2012 Research and Teaching Assistant, University of St. Gallen (full-time, on leave) 09/2009 06/2011 Research Assistant, Swiss Federation of Trade Unions, Bern (50%) 02/2009 08/2009 Intern, Swiss Federation of Trade Unions, Bern (full-time) 1/5
WORK IN PROGRESS Beggar-Thy-Neighbour Tax Cuts: Mobility after a Local Income and Wealth Tax Reform in Switzerland, mimeo, 2015. Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2008, with Reto Föllmi. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 10006, June 2014. Resubmitted to The Review of Economics and Statistics. Cantonal Differences in Health Care Premium Subsidies in Switzerland with Berit Gerritzen and Alma Ramsden, University of St. Gallen SEPS Working Paper No.14-20, July 2014. PUBLICATIONS Bookreview on: Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research by Salvatore Babones, Journal of World-Systems Research, 20(1), March 2014. Mindestlöhne Situation und Handlungsbedarf. Bericht der SGB-Expertengruppe Mindestlohn. With D.Lampart, D.Bianchi and G.Medici. Zürich: Editions à la Carte, May 2011. Mit Konjunkturstabilisierung längerfristige Wachstumschancen sichern, with D.Lampart. Bern: SGB- Dossier Nr. 65, June 2009. AWARDS AND HONORS Doc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF for a research stay abroad at the University of California, Berkeley, CHF 55 000.- Mentee in the Academic Mentoring Program Deutsschweiz for the promotion of women in academic careers, 2014 2016, CHF 1000.- FORS Scholarship for the LIS-Stata Summer Workshop 2012 at the Luxembourg Income Studies Data Centre, Luxembourg, CHF 2000.- VBW Excellence Award 2012 for the Master Thesis: Top Income Shares in Switzerland Assessing the Evolution Between 1985 and 2007 Based on Tax Data, CHF 600.- Erasmus scholarship for student exchange from the Canton of Bern, Free University Berlin, Germany, Academic year 2007/2008, CHF 2000.- CONFERENCES Papers Presented 2016 Beggar-Thy-Neighbour Tax Cuts: Mobility after a Local Income and Wealth Tax Reform in Switzerland, Public Finance Lunch Seminar, UC Berkeley (CA), March 14. Beggar-Thy-Neighbour Tax Cuts: Mobility after a Local Income and Wealth Tax Reform in Switzerland, Western Regional Science Association, Big Island of Hawaii (HI), Feb. 14-17. 2/5
Beggar-Thy-Neighbour Tax Cuts: Mobility after a Local Income and Wealth Tax Reform in Switzerland, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco (US), Jan. 3-5. 2015 Beggar-Thy-Neighbour Tax Cuts: Mobility after a Local Income and Wealth Tax Reform in Switzerland, North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Portland, OR (US), Nov. 11-14. Beggar-Thy-Neighbour Tax Cuts: Mobility after a Local Income and Wealth Tax Reform in Switzerland, Workshop on: Social and Labour market Policy Evaluation with Administrative Data, LISER Esch-sur-Alzette (LUX), June 9-12. 2014 The Evolution of Top Income Shares in Switzerland since 1981, International Conference on: The Evolution of Economic and Social Inequalities in Switzerland, University of Neuchâtel (CH), Oct. 23 25 (invited). Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tax-Induced Mobility and the ETI in the Canton of Zurich, Sinergia Seminar on: Economic Inequality, Labor Markets and International Trade, University of Zurich (CH), Oct. 2. 1981 and 2009, Conference on Crises and the Distribution, Berlin (DE), Sept. 29 30. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tax-Induced Mobility and the ETI in the Canton of Zurich, SNF Sinergia Workshop on: The Swiss Confederation: A Natural Laboratory for Research on Fiscal and Political Decentralization, ETH Zurich (CH), Sept. 19. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tax-Induced Mobility and the ETI in Switzerland, Warsaw International Economic Meeting, Warsaw (PL), July 10 12. Cantonal Differences in Health Care Premium Subsidies in Switzerland (poster presentation), SNF Sinergia - CEPR Conference on: Economic Inequality, Labor Markets and International Trade, Ascona (CH), June 15-18. Cantonal Differences in Health Care Premium Subsidies in Switzerland, Brown Bag Seminar, University of St. Gallen (CH), Apr. 16. 2013 1981 and 2008 (poster presentation), SNF Sinergia Workshop on: Economic Inequality and International Trade, Diessenhofen (CH), Oct. 24 15. Increasing Top Income Shares in Switzerland, Europe and the U.S., Conference on: Power and Justice in the World-System, New York City (US), Aug. 9. 1981 and 2008, Barcelona GSE Summer School on Labor Economics, Barcelona (ES), July 8 12. 1981 and 2008, Congress of the Swiss Sociological Society, Bern (CH), June 26 28 (invited). 1981 and 2008, Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, Neuchâtel (CH), June 20 21. 3/5
Conferences Attended 2015 NBER Public Policy Meeting, Stanford, Nov. 5-6. 2013 SNF Sinergia Workshop The Swiss Confederation: A Natural Laboratory for Research on Fiscal and Political Decentralization, Lausanne (CH), Oct. 17. CEPR Public Policy Symposium, Lugano (CH), May 30 31. 2012 SNF Sinergia Workshop Economic Inequality and International Trade, Hurden (CH), Oct. 11 12. MEDIA COVERAGE OF ACADEMIC WORK Die Volkswirtschaft (February 2015). Ungleiche Einkommensverteilung hemmt Wirtschaftswachstum. Schweiz am Sonntag (November 30, 2014) Der doppelte Reichen-Rekord. Schweizer Monat (November 2014). "Das Ende der Sozialen Frage? Keineswegs! Eine Replik". voxeu.org (August 31, 2014) Volatile top income shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the evolution between 1981 and 2009. NZZ am Sonntag (May 04, 2014) Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung in der Schweiz: In den letzten Jahren ist die Schweiz etwas ungleicher geworden. Tagesanzeiger (April 4, 2014) Die Globale Ungleichheit in 10 Charts. Le Temps (October 28, 2013) Les inégalités de revenus ne se creusent pas en Suisse. Handelszeitung (March 21, 2013) Erstaunlich gut verteilt. Blick (January 17, 2013) Studie der Universität St. Gallen zeigt: Richtig kassieren können nur die Superreichen. Batz.ch (January 12, 2013) Reich sein in der Schweiz ist auch nicht mehr, was es einmal war. TEACHING AND SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE Graduate Level Advanced Macroeconomics I (TA, Fall Terms 2012, 2013) Seminar: Empirical Political Economy (Fall Term 2013) Master Thesis Supervision: Karin García Moreno Undergraduate Level Bachelor Thesis Supervision (Spring Terms 2013, 2014, Fall Term 2013) LANGUAGES German: Native speaker, primary language Spanish: Native speaker, DELE superior, Level C2 English: Proficient working knowledge, Level C2 French: Working knowledge, Level B2/C1 Portuguese: Basic knowledge, Level A2 Levels correspond to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) 4/5
COMPUTER SKILLS Very good user knowledge of Stata, LaTeX, and Microsoft Office, basic knowledge of R REFERENCES Academic Prof. Emmanuel Saez Prof. Reto Föllmi Prof. Monika Bütler University of California, Berkeley University of St. Gallen University of St. Gallen Department of Economics SIAW SEW 530 Evans Hall # 3880 Bodanstrasse 8 Varnbüelstrasse 14 Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 CH-9000 St. Gallen CH-9000 St. Gallen Tel: +1 510 642-4631 +41 (0)71 224 22 69 +41 (0)71 224 2317 saez@econ.berkeley.edu reto.foellmi@unisg.ch monika.buetler@unisg.ch Professional Dr. Daniel Lampart Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund SGB Monbijoustrasse 61 CH-3007 Bern +41 (0)31 377 01 16 daniel.lampart@sgb.ch 5/5