to explain the very low unemployment rate recorded in Switzerland up to the beginning of the 1990s. It also analyses the … foreign labour force. It comes to the conclusion that the unemployment observed since 1991 is not simply a consequence of a …

This paper is about the effects of unemployment on consumption behaviour through “job security” in Switzerland. Based … market. The paper finds that the record high level of unemployment since 1991 has mainly caused the observed deterioration of … the perceived “job security”. Two different scenarios of unemployment rates are then developed to show the quantitative …

The present analysis concentrates on short‐term effects of unemployment, namely on the transition from unemployment to … re‐employment. This empirical analysis estimates the post‐unemployment individual earnings using a double …‐selectivity approach (unemployment risk and the re‐employment probability). The data used in this paper are taken from five waves of the …

canton of Geneva, Switzerland, from regular employment to reliance on social welfare via a stage where unemployment benefits …

unemployment rate on the extent of working‐time constraints. Results indicate, first, that neither model of lifetime contracting … unemployment rate confronting the worker in his or her labour market constitutes an obvious incentive to work more hours than he or …

, facing imminent redundancy, or recently re‐employed after unemployment. Interactions between these four labour market states …

somewhat between low and high unemployment countries. The approach taken in Sweden in the 1960s to 1980s is used to discuss low … unemployment countries, and OECD analysis in the 1990s to represent theory for the high unemployment countries. Targeting the long …‐term unemployed is specifically a policy for high unemployment countries, and depends particularly on effects on wage pressure. The …

the probability that an individual will move out of unemployment into either employment or inactivity. We take advantage …