low bargaining power, with low labor force attachment, with high predicted unemployment duration, among job switchers and … recently unemployed workers, in areas of high unemployment, in firms with flexible pay policies, and when considering firm …Nonemployment is often posited as a worker's outside option in wage setting models such as bargaining and wage posting …

benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … unemployed worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

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 …

and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age …

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the “treatments …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to … among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the effect of the policy we exploit a qasiexperimental feature of the … benefit cut: only a fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of …

unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to … among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the effect of the policy we exploit a quasi-experimental feature of the … benefit cut: only a fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of …