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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003
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/10011401423
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Does unemployment hurt less if there is more of it around? : a panel analysis of life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269257
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Happiness, economy and institutions
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2000
previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781520
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Does government-backed lending prevent unemployment? : an assessment of the Swiss COVID-19 lending program
Kaufmann, Daniel - 2020
This paper identifies the effect of variation in government-backed loan supply on unemployment exploiting regional …. This variation helps disentangling supply from demand effects. Higher loan supply reduces unemployment. Increasing the … between CHF 39,700 and CHF 52,400 per year. These costs are somewhat lower than unemployment benefits associated with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268546
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The labor market in Switzerland, 2000-2018 : the Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increa...
Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias - 2020
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209845
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The labor market in Switzerland, 2000-2016 : the Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increa...
Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias - 2017
Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at only …, as well as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751068
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"The double-dividend of training" labour market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013370739
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731
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Work to live or live to work? Unemployment, happiness, and culture
Krause, Annabelle - 2011
Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ … by cultural background. To test the hypothesis of a 'Teutonic work ethic', this paper takes advantage of Switzerland in … whether such deep psychological traits have an influence on how unemployment is perceived. It is found that unemployment has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282372