Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment
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- Bertil Holmlund, 2004. "Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment," CESifo Working Paper Series 1227, CESifo.
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Keywords
Sickness absence; search; unemployment; sickness benefits; unemployment benefits;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2004-06-22 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2004-06-22 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2004-06-21 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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