Culture, Work Attitudes, and Job Search: Evidence from the Swiss Language Border
| Autor: | Beatrix Eugster, Rafael Lalive, Andreas Steinhauer, Josef Zweimüller |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
2000 General Economics
Econometrics and Finance Generosity Labour economics media_common.quotation_subject Romance languages Space (commercial competition) German Social group 10007 Department of Economics Voting 0502 economics and business Economics values unemployment duration 050207 economics regional unemployment preferences 050205 econometrics media_common 05 social sciences language.human_language 330 Economics culture Work (electrical) Unemployment language General Economics Econometrics and Finance norms |
| Zdroj: | Eugster, B, Lalive, R, Steinhauer, A & Zweimuller, J 2017, ' Culture, work attitudes, and job search : Evidence from the Swiss language border ', Journal of European Economic Association, vol. 15, no. 5, jvw024, pp. 1056-1100 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvw024 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvw024 |
| Popis: | Unemployment varies across space and in time. Can attitudes toward work explain some of these differences? We study job search durations along the Swiss language border, sharply separating Romance language speakers from German speakers. According to surveys and voting results, the language border separates two social groups with different cultural background and attitudes toward work. Despite similar local labor markets and identical institutions, Romance language speakers search for work almost seven weeks (or 22%) longer than their German speaking neighbors. This is a quantitatively large effect, comparable to a large change in unemployment insurance generosity. (JEL: J21, J64, Z10) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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