Swiss Unemployment Insurance Micro Data

In: Schmollers Jahrbuch: journal of contextual economics, Band 124, Heft 1, S. 175-181

Abstract

"Administrative data of the unemployment insurance system in Switzerland have been made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) for specific research purposes. They contain rich Information about unemployed and job seekers. The records are linked to social security data. The combination of the two sources leads to a very rich database. This paper describes the data as well as some administrative procedures generating it." (author's abstract)