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 …

affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … movements across labor force states. The employed worker prefers absence for sufficiently severe sickness and the unemployed …

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 …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 % to 75 %, a … change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed … fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of job finding rates …

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 …

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 …

worker-firm bargaining over wages, free entry of new jobs, and endogenous search effort among the unemployed. The main result …Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker … s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features …