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 … worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor force …

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 … worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor force …

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 … as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual search and labor supply decisions and …

In this paper, I propose a new Keynesian DSGE model with labor market search and matching frictions which replicates … States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

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 …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on re-employment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility … and second when search effort is not observable. To decentralize these optima, employees should be unable to extract a … optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe … often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …