Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …

; optimal unemployment insurance ; welfare-to-work policies ; recursive contracts … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …

; optimal unemployment insurance ; welfare-to-work policies ; recursive contracts … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …