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 …

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

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

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

The influence of human capital, the local unemployment rate, the family situation, personal characteristics and the … social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio …