-wanted ads and an unemployment subsidy, is highly contractionary. However, it leads to large welfare gains. The policy also plays …

that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …

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 …

endogenous unemployment and wages. This means that the government needs to consider the effects on wages and unemployment when … designing the optimal tax function. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates result in new … marginal tax rates to raise the unemployment rate for the high-skilled and lower it for the low-skilled workers. …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

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

data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment … is associated with higher risk of unemployment. Women have a significantly higher risk then men of unemployment …