The paper presents a general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct … labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private information to the …

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as … a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private … among nonemployed individuals interact with their search decisions and trigger movements into and out of the labor force …

The paper presents a general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct … labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private information to the …

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as … a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private … among nonemployed individuals interact with their search decisions and trigger movements into and out of the labor force …

In this paper, I investigate the effect of extended unemployment insurance (UI) coverage in the United States in recent … years on job search. The U.S. government extended UI benefits in several phases in 2008-2009, increasing the duration of the … effect of the UI extensions for women is over a 10 percentage points decline in the probability of job search. However, I do …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search … countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time … devoted to searching for a new job. Job search intensity varies considerably across countries, and is higher in countries that …

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 …