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| Title: | | Does culture affect unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben  |
| Authors: | | Brügger, Beatrix Lalive, Rafael Zweimüller, Josef |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4283 |
| Abstract: | | This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor 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 horizontal transmission of culture is more important than vertical transmission of culture and that culture is about as important as strong changes to the benefit duration. |
| Subjects: | | Culture cultural transmission unemployment duration regional unemployment |
| JEL: | | J21 J64 Z10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009082156 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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