increases job finding and is cost effective. However, caseworkers differ substantially in the rate at which they impose broader … caseworkers within local offices to evaluate the broader search requirement. Our results show that imposing the broader search …

out of unemployment along with the sanction rate and hazard rate into active labour market programmes. We optimally select …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes.We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …

increases job finding and is cost effective. However, caseworkers differ substantially in the rate at which they impose broader … caseworkers within local offices to evaluate the broader search requirement. Our results show that imposing the broader search …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …