Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at only … resiliency. However, challenges do exist, particularly related to earnings and employment gaps among foreign and native workers …, as well as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …

Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at …. However, challenges do exist, particularly related to earnings and employment gaps between foreign and native workers, as well … as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …

, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … (carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

entitlement of the maximum unemployment benefit duration to identify the medium-run effects of reduced benefit durations on post-unemployment … quality of job-matches. On the contrary, shortened benefit durations improve medium-run earnings and employment possibly …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …