Rafael Lalive

Assistant Professor
Chair of Macroeconomics, Prof. Zweimüller

Contact

Dr. Rafael Lalive D'Epinay
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
University of Zurich
Blümlisalpstrasse 10
CH-8006 Zürich

Office BLU-101

Phone: +41 (0)44 634 37 25
Email: rlalive@iew.uzh.ch

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Publications

Refereed journals or books

•	How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment, Review of Economic Studies, 2006, forthcoming (with Van Ours, Jan C. and Zweimüller, Josef) [ PDF ] [ Data/Programs/Description ]
•	The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3(6):1-32 (with Van Ours, Jan C. and Zweimüller, Josef)
•	The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation, Labour Economics, 2005, 12(6): 739-748, (with Armin Falk and Josef Zweimüller) [ PDF ]
•	The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-being, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2(4), 696-719, 2004 (with Stutzer, Alois) [ PDF ]
•	Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity, Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88(12): 2587-2616, 2004 (with Zweimüller, Josef) [ PDF ]
•	Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market:Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change, in: Agell, Jonas, Keene, Michael, and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Policy, forthcoming, MIT Press, 2004 (with Zweimüller, Josef) [ PDF ]
•	Do Wages Rise With Job Seniority? The Swiss Case, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 139(2): 207-29, 2003 (with Luchsinger, Cornelia and Wild, Jörg)
•	Did we Overestimate the Value of Health?, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 27(2): 171-193, 2003 [ PDF ]
•	Soziale Arbeitsnorm und Arbeitslosigkeit in der Schweiz, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 138(3): 293-316, 2002 (with Stutzer, Alois) [ PDF ]

Non-refereed journals or books

•	The Duration of Unemployment: Institutions, Labor Market Programs, and Social Interactions, Doctoral Thesis, University of Zurich, 2001
•	Evaluationsprogramm Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Arbeitsmarktliche Massnahmenund Anspruch auf Arbeitslosenentschaedigung, seco Publikation, Bern: seco, 2000 (with Zweimüller, Josef) [ PDF ]
•	Price Setting for Doctors, in: Zweifel, Peter, Lyttkens, Carl-Hampus and Lars Soederstroem (eds), Regulation of Health: Case Studies of Sweden and Switzerland, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 91-109, 1998 (with Burstroem, Kristina) [ PDF ]

Working papers

•	Competition for Railway Markets: The Case of Baden-Württemberg, Mimeo, University of Zurich (with Schmutzler, Armin)
•	Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a "True Natural Experiment", Mimeo, University of Zurich (with Zweimüller, Josef) [ PDF ]
•	Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions, Mimeo, University of Zurich, 2005, (with Cattaneo, Alejandra)
•	The Importance of Firms in Wage Determination, Mimeo, University of Zurich, 2004 (with Grütter, Max) [ PDF ]
•	Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being, Mimeo, University of Zurich, 2004 (with Stutzer, Alois) [ PDF ]
•	Social Interactions in Unemployment, Mimeo, Tinbergen Institute, 2003 [ PDF ]
•	The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs on the Duration of Unemployment, Mimeo, University of Zurich; 2001 (with Van Ours, Jan C. and Zweimüller, Josef) [ PDF ]

Newspapers

•	Gesellschaftlicher Zwang zur Arbeit, NZZ am Sonntag, January 19, 2003, 2003 (with Stutzer, Alois) [ PDF ]
•	Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in der Schweiz, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Nr. 152, 2002 (with Zweimüller, Josef) [ PDF ]
•	Tiefe Zahlen, hohe Werte, Magazin der Universitaet Zuerich, 2002 (with Stutzer, Alois) [ PDF ]
•	Arbeitsmarktliche Massnahmen, Anspruch auf Arbeitslosenentschaedigungund die Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit: Ergebnisse einer Evaluationsstudie, Die Volkswirtschaft, (4), 2000 (with Zweimüller, Josef)