search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant … increasing benefits, moral hazard problems for constant benefits and decreasing search productivity for decreasing benefits. …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor force … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

In this paper, we investigate the causes and consequences of "unclaimed" unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A search …

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 …