We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity …

We use a labor search model with heterogenous households and firms to study the efficacy of a wage subsidy during a …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment … for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects … a rather large sample to elaborate on the basic findings. It is shown that harder sanctions have a larger effect, that …