Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Linden, Bruno Van Der - In: Revue française d'économie Volume XXVII (2012) 1, pp. 65-106
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We develop a structural approach to evaluate the impact of the reform on the exit rate to employment and on earnings. A job-search model is built and then estimated on the basis of a sample...