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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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

design of optimalunemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-timeunemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as astepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflowfrom unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to full-timeemployment. We …

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 …

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

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …