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This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872714
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861817
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment dura- tion on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343929
Can different social groups develop different demands for social insurance of risks to health and work? We study this issue across language groups in Switzerland. Language defines social groups and Swiss language groups are separated by a clear geographic border. Actual levels of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739422
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189830
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196059
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222097
We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...
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program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345856
This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916402