unemployment policies. In our model, firms face a pool of applicants and observe unemployment duration and a signal about … recent evidence from audit studies. Optimal policy takes into account that unemployment benefits can affect hiring … probabilities by making unemployment duration more or less informative and by changing the applications-per-vacancy ratio due to …

received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …