Culture, Work Attitudes, and Job Search: Evidence from the Swiss Language Border
利用瑞士语言边界两侧相似劳动力市场但不同文化背景的差异，发现罗曼语族语言使用者比德语使用者求职时间长约7周（22%），表明工作态度显著影响失业持续时间。
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.