The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the treatmentsʺ …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to …