Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum … theoretical job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection versus monitoring of job search effort. The observation window …

data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment …. The results indicate that an increase in the number of sick leaves as well as an increase in the duration of sick spells … is associated with higher risk of unemployment. Women have a significantly higher risk then men of unemployment …

sanctions on job search outcomes for young welfare recipients in Germany. The German benefit system is characterized by harsh … not comply with their job search requirements. We jointly analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and … welfare. We estimate multivariate duration models taking selection based on unobservables into account. Our results indicate …

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from …-state duration model, applying the "timing of events" approach. To deal with selectivity, the model incorporates transitions from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour …

We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated labor search-and-matching model to account for labor market …

unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor … vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make it more difficult, due to the …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and … as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual search and labor supply decisions and …