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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861817
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
benefits strongly increase due to job loss. -- Social cost of unemployment ; health ; job loss ; plant closure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884088
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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872714
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The public health costs of unemployment
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003596269
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944243
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The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333287
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343926
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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343929
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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
cases, in particular for steel workers, entering unemployment meant withdrawal from the labor force. Finally, we show that …This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406689
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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
cases, in particular for steel workers, entering unemployment meant withdrawal from the labor force. Finally, we show that …This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409442