Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a … Sweden. Subsequent participation in the Canadian program is influenced by parental UI history. In Sweden individual learning …

introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation and had no significant impacts on wages … exposed to disease, workers that work with proximity to coworkers and workers who can easily work remotely. Our estimates … remotely are less affected. We also find that occupations classifed as more exposed to disease are less affected, possibly due …