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

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …

This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

. We find that young and less educated workers have always been affected more in recessions, while women and Hispanics were … teleworkable and essential jobs fell less during the Pandemic Crisis. Lastly, during both recessions, workers at low …-income earnings have suffered more than top-income earners, suggesting a significant distributional impact of the two recessions …

This study evaluates the long-term cost of unemployment in Finland by focusing on the deep recession period of the … early 1990s. The number of plant closures increased sharply during the recession and the unemployment rate rose by more than … 13 percentage points. In the analysis, prime working-age men who face unemployment due to plant closure are matched to …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

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 …