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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Arni, Patrick; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lalive, Rafael - 2015
(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376303
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Social interactions in unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333880
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The labor market in Switzerland, 2000-2016 : the Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increa...
Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias - 2017
Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at only …, as well as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751068
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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Arni, Patrick; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lalive, Rafael - 2017
) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796414
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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401423
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The labor market in Switzerland, 2000-2018 : the Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increa...
Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias - 2020
Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at … as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209845
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Social interactions in unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511086
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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261540
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262506
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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324878