Le plan d’accompagnement et de suivi des chômeurs introduit en juillet 2004 combine encouragements et menaces de sanctions. D’un côté, l’effort de recherche des chômeurs indemnisés est contrôlé plus étroitement et des sanctions sont prévues si cet effort est jugé insuffisant. De...

Het Plan voor de Begeleiding en de Opvolging van werklozen, dat in juli 2004 in België werd ingevoerd, combineert stimuli en sancties. Enerzijds wordt het zoeken naar werk van uitkeringsgerechtigde werklozen nauwgezetter gecontroleerd en gesanctioneerd indien onvoldoende zoekinspanningen...

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...

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate as 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...

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an economic environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically lon-lastingand stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational...