) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …

Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment …

A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …

This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically …-legislative institutions are distinguished. This paper also provides calculations of the index and sub-indices of direct democracy for the … (1999) and Stutzer (1999) this paper includes the political institutions of the so-called Landsgemeinde cantons. Description …

Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or …