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 …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a … typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are … measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data, monitoring is found to affect search behavior only weakly, because (i) assessments …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

cut for three months. We analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and on transitions out of the labor …With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … recipients living with other household members can partly rely on their support and might react less by increasing search …

the job search behavior of unemployed individuals, incorporating institutional features of the monitoring of search … behavior by the agencies. Notably, rejections of VRs may lead to sanctions (temporary benefits reductions) while workers may … caseworker recorded data on VRs, sick reporting and sanctions. The analysis highlights the influence of aspects of the health …

Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health … sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour … and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in … trade restrictions, we provide further evidence on the indirect effects of sanctions. Analysing the impact on broader …

In this paper we develop a model capturing key features of the Roy model, a search model, compensating differentials … the job match obtained by search frictions varies from around 9% to around 29% depending on how we account for other … features. Compensating differentials and search are both very important for explaining other features of the data such as the …