The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks … benefits and product market deregulation stand out as the most prominent policy levers for unemployment reduction. All other …

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …