DellaVigna, Stefano; Heining, Joerg; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2022
-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,349 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individuals over the unemployment spell. We … provide three key facts: 1) search effort is flat early on in the UI spell, 2) search effort exhibits an increase up to UI …