In comparing the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment … unemployment rate and the excess burden of labor taxes. Unemployment partly reflects the country's exposure to globalization; (ii …) corporate taxation and social insurance can have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an increase in …

This paper discusses the effects of a higher unemployment benefit replacement rate on unemployment durations …, employment and earnings. A reform of the Swiss unemployment insurance in July 2003 increased the replacement rate by up to 5 …-in-differences (DiD) approach. The change in the replacement rate increased unemployment durations by 3.1 % – or roughly one week – for …

The topic of this paper has been motivated by the rising unemployment rate of low-skilled relative to high …-skilled unemployment rate among all OECD countries. A natural culprit for this development is "globalization" as indicated by some mass …

The following contribution compares the unemployment situation arising from the lockdown induced by the Covid-19 … pandemic with previous employment crises in Switzerland. In addition, it forecasts the future trajectory of unemployment based … on ongoing changes in hazard rates. From a historical perspective, current unemployment as well as that expected by the …

materialize. Moreover, the unemployment rate was lifted by 0.5 to 0.7 percentage points and household suffered from lower real … agreement reinforces the swings in GDP and employment growth but dampens the swings in unemployment and inflation. In contrast …, if the reaction of migration flows to rising and falling labor demand is asymmetric, unemployment might increase over the …