using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …

to survey the recent development of municipal finance: Britain, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. This paper firstly …

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and …

changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor …

conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …