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 …

Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary … disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types is affected by local labor demand conditions …. Local labor demand is identified by means of a shift-share instrumental variables strategy, where initial local industry …

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 …