statistically significant, but modest decrease in the duration of joblessness among lower-paid displaced workers, while an abundance … of competing searchers for those jobs increases duration modestly. Search durations for older workers, Hispanic workers …

indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that … as strong changes to the benefit duration. -- Culture ; cultural transmission ; unemployment duration ; regional …This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local …