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The labor market in Switzerland, 2000-2016 : the Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increa...
Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias - 2017
Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at only …, as well as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751068
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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401423
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Does unemployment hurt less if there is more of it around? : a panel analysis of life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269257
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The labor market in Switzerland, 2000-2018 : the Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increa...
Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias - 2020
Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at … as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209845
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Organisationen im Umbruch : die Gewerkschaften in der Schweiz von 1990 bis 2006
Oesch, Daniel - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586171
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Recruitment, Retention and Exit from Union Membership - An Analysis of Member Flows in Swiss Union Locals
Oesch, Daniel - 2011
This article enquires into the causes of union growth and decline by analysing flows in and out of membership at the level of 70 Swiss union locals over 2006-2008. Gross flows in union membership are much larger than the resulting net changes: annual membership turnover of 10 per cent is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183997
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Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel - 2010
After decades of stability, Switzerland's union movement entered a phase of turbulence in the early 1990s: its status as junior partner in the corporatist growth pact was challenged by the economic crisis, the neoliberal turn in business organizations and an abrupt decline in membership. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142988
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601035
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262506
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The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410900