reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …

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 …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. -- Start-up subsidies ; self …

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 …

active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search assistance or job creation schemes). What has not been examined yet … are the potentially heterogeneous effects of start-up programs across regional labor markets. Labor demand side … restrictions in areas with relatively bad labor market conditions generally increase entries into start-up programs as job offers …

analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …

. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor …Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy … start-ups out of unemployment with regular business founders, with respect to not only personal characteristics but also …