form models of on-thejob search, unemployed search behaviour, unemployment risk, and transitions out of the labour force … force, on measures of search intensity, on the risk of being hit by unemployment and on one of our flexibility measures, i …

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 …

whether stricter enforcement and verification of work search behavior alone decreases unemployment claims and benefits paid in … provide no support for the view that the failure to actively search for work has been a cause of overpayments in the UI system. …