Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three …

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 …

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 …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …