average 10 days longer in unemployment (5% relative to the mean). Results show large heterogeneity in the economic value of …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

shares of fast-depreciating hard skills, the role of lifelong learning is primarily as a hedge against unemployment risks …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

(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 …

In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that …