density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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 …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

small reduction in the unemployment benefits, or introducing a small cash bonus for workers that get a new job, may have no … e.ect on unemployment in some cases, while eradicating significant levels of unemployment in other cases. Our analysis … multiple equilibria may exist in a game involving both workers and an unemployment-averse government. Furthermore, we explore a …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …