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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262506
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Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262747
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The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements and the effect of the actual enforcement of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262782
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Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262803
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How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration?: A regression discontinuity approach
Lalive, Rafael - 2006
This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks …. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263951
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How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration? A regression discontinuity approach
Lalive, Rafael - 2006
This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks …. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268089
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Does culture affect unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269078
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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274515
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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity … reaches its highest level, then decrease and disappear as the program is scaled down and finally interrupted. We use this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329133
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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made unemployment insurance more generous by changing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277283