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 …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …