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 …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

, such as unemployment insurance benefits, parental benefits, a fully funded pension scheme together with earnings … or increase labour effort, affecting people both with low and high earnings. In case of unemployment benefits and early … long-term unemployment and it is vital that they are encouraged to return to the labour market. …

-the-job search is a key component in explaining labor market dynamics in models of equilibrium unemployment. The model predicts … fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose relative magnitudes replicate the data. A standard search and … firms?incentives to post new jobs. Labor market tightness as measured by the vacancy-unemployment ratio is as volatile as in …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

Using an efficiency-wage model, we examine the relationship between indeterminacy and unemployment insurance. It is … shown that the less unemployment insurance is, the more likely equilibrium is to be indeterminate. Equilibrium can be …

The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We …, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are …