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 …

public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means …

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 …

increase in a state-industry’s monthly unemployment rate. The effect is amplified in industries employing a larger fraction of … charges increases by more than 30% in response to a 50% cut to North Carolina’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program following …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We … increases in domestic violence. Exploiting a discontinuity in unemployment insurance eligibility, we find that eligible men are … increase in exposure of victims to perpetrators, with unemployment benefits partially offsetting the income shock while …

in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0 …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity …