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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...
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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 … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …
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