This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria … from former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on unemployment entry of young male workers, who are supposed to compete most …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual searchand labor supply decisions and triggers … movements across labor force states. The employed worker prefers absence for sufficiently severe sickness and the unemployed …

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 …

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 …

A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in … the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …