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 …

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

a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted …

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 …

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 …

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

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted …