50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …

In the standard macroeconomic search and matching model of the labor market, there is a tight link between the … quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A …

In the standard macroeconomic search and matching model of the labor market, there is a tight link between the … quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households’ behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. …

labor markets. Upon a neutral shock, total unemployment decrease is two-staged: firstly with a reduction in unskilled … investment. Idiosyncratic shock shifts the skilled labor share and changes tightness in both skilled and unskilled markets. Given … unemployment, and then due to a sharp decline of skilled unemployment when skill substitution dominates. A higher elasticity of …

This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage … labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …

Die Suchtheorie macht zwei komplementäre Vorhersagen über den Einfluß der Arbeitslosenversicherung auf die Dynamik von … Arbeitslosigkeit. Indem die Anspruchslöhne der Arbeitslosen erhöht werden, sollte die Arbeitslosenversicherung sowohl zu einer …Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes …

sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the self-reported reservation wage predicts whether a job offer is accepted or … rejected; (3) the reservation wage is remarkably stable over the course of unemployment for most workers, with the notable … devoted to job search and the reservation wage help predict early exits from Unemployment Insurance (UI). …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …