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- Title
CULTURE, WORK ATTITUDES, AND JOB SEARCH: EVIDENCE FROM THE SWISS LANGUAGE BORDER.
- Authors
Eugster, Beatrix; Steinhauer, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; CULTURE; ATTITUDES toward work; JOB hunting; ETHNOLOGY; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1056
- ISSN
1542-4766
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jeea/jvw024