sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … 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 …

effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine …

the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh … jobs are taken up later within the unemployment spell. -- marginal employment ; unemployment duration ; job search …

induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including … unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an individual's employment and earnings history. The model also captures the … for unemployment insurance benefits which varied by age and experience. The results show that a policy cut in the …

discouraged and thus increases search. On average, optimism increases the duration of unemployment by about 6.5%. … unemployment entry, optimism decreases job finding by about 8%. This effect weakens over the unemployment spell and eventually … switches sign after about 8 months of unemployment. From then onward, optimism prevents un- employed individuals from becoming …

networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search. Hence, job search theory suggests that individuals with … relationship between the network size and reservation wages. -- Job search behavior ; unemployment ; social networks …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for … and search intensity. -- Unemployment ; Migration ; Personality Traits ; Risk Attitudes ; Time Preferences ; Trust …