of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we …

, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …

We develop a model where workers, anticipating the possibility of unemployment, invest in connections to access …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

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

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 …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …