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This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872714
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861817
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment dura- tion on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343929
(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376303
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
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) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796414
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
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Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at … as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …
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selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511086
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …
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