TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brügger, Beatrix
AU  - Lalive, Rafael
AU  - Zweimüller, Josef
        TI  - Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
        PY  - 2009/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4283
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4283
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - culture
KW  - cultural transmission
KW  - unemployment duration
KW  - regional unemployment
        ER  -