Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We develop a structural approach to evaluate the impact of the reform on the exit rate to employment and on earnings. A job-search model is built and then estimated on the basis of a sample...

Les évaluations négatives de l’effort de recherche d’emploi pleuvent-elles ? Les chômeurs cherchent-ils trop peu ? A en croire les titres récents dans les médias, ceci ne fait aucun doute. Nous montrons qu’à y regarder de plus près, ces conclusions sont incorrectes.

Imposer des «services à la communauté» en contrepartie de l'octroi d'indemnités de chômage est une idée évoquée par certains partis autour de la table de négociation du gouvernement fédéral. Le journal Le Soir, notamment, y consacrait une double page dans son édition imprimée du 21...

This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...

This paper argues that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a wage-moderation effect and increases overall employment...

Belgium is a multi-level government country. The regional performances of the labour market are quite different, yet some basic problems are common. This article raises the question : According to which principles should public interventions on the labour market be centralized or decentralized?...

Various types of basic income schemes are considered to compensate the allocative inefficiencies induced by unemployment benefits. A dynamic general equilibrium model of a unionised economy is developed in which participation to the formal labour market is endogenous and the budget of the State...

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...