The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied …

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 …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

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 …

. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these … states. -- Self-employment ; unemployment ; income ; occupational mobility ; gender differences …

cases, in particular for steel workers, entering unemployment meant withdrawal from the labor force. Finally, we show that …This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …