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Title: Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the R�stigraben

Author(s): Beatrix Br�gger, Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweim�ller

Publication Date: August 2009

Keyword(s): cultural transmission, culture, regional unemployment and unemployment duration

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

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 R�stigraben seperates 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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Br�gger, B, Lalive, R and Zweim�ller, J. 2009. 'Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the R�stigraben'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7405