In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates … unemployed job seekers who participate in the subsidy program and move to a distant region receive higher wages and find more …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … 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 …

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their … their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages …

networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search. Hence, job search theory suggests that individuals with … search productivity, it is also likely that individuals set higher reservation wages. We analyze these relations using a … relationship between the network size and reservation wages …

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … 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 …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …. While job search theory predicts a shift in individuals' search effort from local to distant labour markets, consequences … for other dimensions of the search behaviour, e.g. reservation wages or the overall search effort, and job …