unemployed became more generous. Before, a temporary moratorium on sanctions had been imposed, providing a unique policy shift …

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 …

calibrated structural model that features job search and consumption-saving decision, skill depreciation, UI eligibility, and UI …

negatively correlated with the unemployment rate. These empirical facts are explained in an equilibrium search model where firms …% and welfare increases. Average search effort decreases, but the unemployment rate and duration decrease as vacancy …

explained in an equilibrium search model where firms finance UI benefits via a payroll tax, and are heterogeneous with respect … eligible unemployed collect, benefit expenditures increase by 29% and welfare increases by 0.43%. Average search effort …

We study a labor market in which principals and agents must search for a trading partner, and agents have private … match. This leads to insufficient frictional unemployment and search, and lower average productivity and utility. A fully …

We construct a multi-sector search and matching model where the unemployed receives idiosyncratic productivity shocks … that make working in certain sectors more productive than in the others. Agents must decide which sector to search in and … additional risk: low future wages if mobility costs preclude search in the appropriate sector. This introduces a new role for …

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

decrease as the level of earnings rises. The framework is a search equilibrium model where wages are determined by Nash … bargaining between firms and workers, job search intensity is endogenous and workers are heterogeneous. The analysis suggests …