Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
By Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller. Social Science Research Network, 2009
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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 Rostigraben 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.
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- Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland (2013, background): “It has thus been argued that attitudes towards work are more positive in the German-speaking than the French- and Italian-speaking regions, which possibly explains why unemployment is lower in German-speaking Switzerland (Brügger et al. 2009).”
- The causal impact of common native language on international trade: Evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design: evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design (2015, unknown): “…units of different native language majority within cantons we may condition on economic, institutional, and political factors that may change at cantonal borders (certainly, in comparison to country-level studies; see also Brügger et al., 2009; Eugster et al., 2011; Eugster and Parchet, 2013).”