temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis. …

reduced unemployment most in the European countries with low or average levels of labour costs. …

of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

progress. -- Out of Africa hypothesis ; human genetic diversity ; comparative development ; population density ; Neolithic …

benefits strongly increase due to job loss. -- Social cost of unemployment ; health ; job loss ; plant closure …

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 …

unemployed individuals to the dynamics of the labor market in different phases of the business cycle. Using individual level data … from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we decompose differences in employment status transition rates between economic … role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is …

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 …