In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment serviceon the search effort of unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment.For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and variablecosts of search in which unemployed workers select...

The estimation of the elasticity of hours to wages relies mostly on laborsupply models although workers choices of hours may be constrained. This article reexaminesthe theoretical meaning of this elasticity accounting for labor demand. To do so, we introducepart-time work characteristics within...