effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search …

sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is … that the case for imposing a penalty on less active job search is fairly solid. A growing number of empirical studies …

effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search …

effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search …

that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed …

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

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 …