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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 …

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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Lechner, Michael; Gerfin, Michael - 2000

In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a … potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment …

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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001

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...

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Unemployed and their caseworkers: should they be friends or foes?

Behnke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2007

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider providing services to their clients and satisfying their...

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A caseworker like me: does the similarity between unemployed and caseworker increase job placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2008

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...

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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003

In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for … to the fact that teachers? salaries are generally high in Switzerland - teachers here enjoy a positive wage differential …

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Does Subsidised Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes

Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael; Steiger, Heidi - 2002

schemes of subsidised temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment … as well as for those with short unemployment duration. For unemployed with potentially long unemployment duration and for …

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Exploiting regional treatment intensity for the evaluation of labour market policies

Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2006

We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in programme...

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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and …

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