The paper estimates a job search model with savings on Danish microdata that include observations on wealth and wages. Controlling for extensive observed and unobserved worker characteristics heterogeneity, the estimation relates observed unemployment spells to the model implied hazard rate for...

In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment; layoffs are random and beyond the worker`s influence, while the reemployment chance is directly affected by search effort. We characterize the worker`s optimal savings and jobsearch...

In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment; layoffs are random and beyond the worker s influence, while the re-employment chance is directly affected by search effort. We characterize the worker s optimal savings and job-search...

In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment; layoffs are random and beyond the worker's influence, while the re-employment chance is directly affected by search effort. We characterize the worker's optimal savings and job-search...