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Rafael Lalive

University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Professor of Economics, University of Lausanne

Research interest

Labor market policy, family policy, and social economics

Website

https://sites.google.com/site/rafaellalive/

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Zurich, 2001

Selected publications

  • "How does pension eligibility affect labor supply in couples?" Labor Economics 46 (2017): 177–188 (with P. Parrotta).

  • "Market externalities from large unemployment insurance benefit extension programs." American Economic Review 105:12 (2015): 3564–3596 (with C. Landais and J. Zweimüller).

  • "How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? Looking beyond unemployment exit." Journal of Applied Econometrics 28:7 (2013): 1153–1178 (with P. Arni and J. van Ours).

  • "Equilibrium unemployment and the duration of unemployment benefits." Journal of Population Economics 24:4 (2012): 1385–1409 (with J. C. van Ours and J. Zweimüller).

  • "The public health costs of job loss." Journal of Health Economics 28:6 (2009): 1099–1115 (with A. Kuhn and J. Zweimüller).

article(s)

  • The labor market in Switzerland, 2000–2018 Updated

    The Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increasing

    Rafael LaliveTobias Lehmann, April 2020
    Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at around 4%. The rate has remained at that level since the year 2000, despite a massive increase in the foreign labor force, the Great Recession, and a currency appreciation shock, demonstrating the Swiss labor market's impressive resiliency. However, challenges do exist, particularly related to earnings and employment gaps between foreign and native workers, as well as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant.
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