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 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 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...

DellaVigna and Paserman (2005) and Paserman (2008) have shown that imposing job search requirements on sophisticated unemployed benefit claimants with hyperbolic time preferences is Pareto improving in that it raises welfare for the unemployed, by limiting harmful procrastination, and for...

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

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...

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...

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...

Le Plan d'Accompagnement et de Suivi des chômeurs (PAS), mis en oeuvre en Belgique depuis juillet 2004, combine encouragements et menaces de sanctions. D'un côté, il vise à renforcer l'aide à la recherche d'emploi, l'offre de formations et d'autres politiques actives. De l'autre, l'effort...

Het Plan voor de begeleiding en de opvolging van werklozen, dat in juli 2004 in België ingevoerd werd, combineert stimuli en sancties. Het is enerzijds gericht op een betere begeleiding van de zoektocht naar werk, een beter opleidingsaanbod en andere activeringsmaatregelen. Anderzijds wordt het...