To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages … of monitoring is randomized. They include registers of post-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey … data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes …

rate from un- employment can be decomposed in a way that is informative on reservation wage movements over the unemployment … - reservation wage choice and search effort. In the framework of a standard non-stationary job search model, I show how the exit … in a regression-discontinuity approach to identify the effects of extended benefit durations on unemployment and survivor …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search … requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked …, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower occupational level. The data cover the Swedish population over 1999 …