Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as … fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the … unemployment not only in the short run, but in the long run as well. The reason is that, in the presence of growing exogenous …

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market … decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are … examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when temporary shocks have persistent effects on unemployment; and (ii …

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …