unemployment insurance and lower levels of search intensity and output in the second setting. To decenralize these optima …This papers revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when workers have concave utility functions … unemployed people freely choose their search effort. Compared to the first case, the optimum is characterized by imperfect …

This search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies … on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

income is stronger, and that its level should be higher. the higher the level of unemployment or job scarcity. Point of … equivalent. The equivalence is that the price of Labour Rights and the unemployment benefit corresponds to the income tax rate …. This analysis provides an argument against cutting unemployment and social assistance benefits during economic downturns …

Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the … job search is verified. The threat of monitoring increases transitions to employment, but of lower quality. In the less … more heterogeneous. Moreover, in this region, the threat induces women to substitute sickness for unemployment benefits. …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an … show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job …

levels. Job search effort, labour demand and wages are endogenous. When wages are bargained over, raising the effectiveness … of or the access to counselling programmes pushes wages upwards and leads to lower search effort among nonparticipants …’ are taken into account. The inter-temporal utility of the low-skilled nevertheless increases because search effort …

unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one …In july 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming …

This paper develops a joint evaluation of vocational training and unemployment insurance. This allows to analyze how … the distribution of the effects. Job search effort and wages are endogenous in order to deal with the induced effects of …. A reform that would relate this expected duration to search effort does not appear to produce substantial effects on any …

foundations. The specification is based on an equilibrium job search model where LMPs affect tightness on the labor market. The … impacts of a comprehensive set of LMPs on the unemployment outflow rate and on wages are jointly estimated. Taking care of the … the rate of training have a clear-cut negative effect on the exit rate from insured unemployment. The effect of sanctions …