of incumbent workers have substantial effects on separations and unemployment volatility. Allowing for an empirically … relevant degree of wage rigidities for incumbent workers drives unemployment volatility, as well as the volatility of vacancies …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

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 …

assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … unemployment and slightly reduced government spending. …