previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A …

Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …

Switzerland where nominal GDP growth has been very low for many years in the 1990s. We find that the rigidity of nominal wages is …, real wages would indeed be quite responsive to unemployment. Moreover, the wage sweep-ups caused by nominal rigidity are … strongly correlated with unemployment suggesting that downward rigidity of nominal wages indeed contributes to unemployment. …

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A …