Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …
