that the case for imposing a penalty on less active job search is fairly solid. A growing number of empirical studies …

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

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as … among nonemployed individuals interact with their search decisions and trigger movements into and out of the labor force …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search … effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search … effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …

The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where 'goods' are produced exclusively in the market …