appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing sanctions for infractions. Empirical studies consistently show that job … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by …

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. …

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 …