using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing … apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

long-run loss is due to a decline in wages. We also show that even the generous German unemployment insurance system … lasting reductions in income even in labor markets with tighter social safety nets and lower earnings inequality. -- Job … Displacement ; Mass-Layoffs ; Unemployment Insurance System …

This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic … unemployment spells and career histo-ries over twenty years from Germany. We find that increases in UI have small to modest effects … UI during recessions do not lead to lasting increases in unemployment duration, nor can they explain differ-ences in …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …