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 …

This paper begins with an examination of various ways of measuring unemployment and, borrowing ideas from the poverty … measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index … unemployment rate, the average unemployment duration, and the inequality in the unemployment durationsto the differences between …

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled crosssection of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second step, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …

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 …

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …

Zusammenhang hin. Im Kontrast zu den internationalen Erfahrungen führen in der Schweiz ideologische Argumente zu einer … instead points to a reverse correlation. In contrast to international experience, ideological arguments in Switzerland lead to …