Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

This paper provides a structural analysis of the role of job vacancy referrals (VRs) by public employment agencies in … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes. We find a spike in the re-employment hazard for the … ; unemployment duration ; employment probability ; job match quality ; regression discontinuity …The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed …

effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

relationship between the network size and reservation wages. -- job search behavior ; unemployment ; social networks …

. However, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for … heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation …