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 estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …. Labor market training is helping workers to ameliorate these negative effects and is remarkably on the spot. For workers who …

Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so … Europe. Trade does not affect wages at all, and hardly affect employment. Thus one can expect that, while the Austrian labor … market might be somewhat negatively affected by the East enlargement of the EU, the German labor market will not …

product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …