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. …

. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …

In November 2005, the Hungarian government frontloaded the unemployment benefit path, while kept constant the total … benefit amount that could be collected over the unemployment spell. We estimate the effect of this reform on non …

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

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

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 …