This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness … insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the …

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by … benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings …

employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We …

employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labor market frictions are … responsible for the negative response of employment. …

depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …

developments. Institutional factors, such as a trend increase in the generosity of unemployment insurance, caused some secular rise …