The paper presents a general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct … labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private information to the …

unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on … exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and … decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in the formal sector come with unemployment benefits. After incorporating …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

's institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net … unappealing long-term consequences. Reliance on the plan may reduce the incentive to search for work and in the long-run may … participating in Plan Jefes on the probability of exiting from unemployment. Regardless of the data set, the specification and the …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model …

, compared to non-participation, ES are effective for workers with little access to informal search channels, and SBA works for …

50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …