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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes …, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design …

the job search behavior of unemployed individuals, incorporating institutional features of the monitoring of search … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

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 …