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Does job search assistance really raise employment?
Cottier, Lionel; Flückiger, Yves; Kempeneers, Pierre; … - 2018
lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903033
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The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000
Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333287
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
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/10005585651
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 live off one’s own income and we show that this norm has important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703429
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2021
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/10013321279
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Soziale Arbeitsnorm und Arbeitslosigkeit in der Schweiz
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 138 (2002) III, pp. 293-316
So far economic analysis of unemployment has neglected social norms to a large extent. Here the empirical relevance of … the social norm to live off one's own income is studied with regard to unemployed people's behaviour and subjective well-being …. The strength of the social work norm is measured in terms of a national referendum on the reduction of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580994
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Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?
Cottier, Lionel - 2018
lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911193
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The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement on the Duration of Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160319
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The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment
van Ours, Jan C.; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2021
Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321272
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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Arni, Patrick; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lalive, Rafael - 2015
(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