We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a … typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are … measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data, monitoring is found to affect search behavior only weakly, because (i) assessments …

We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a … typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are … measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data, monitoring is found to affect search behavior only weakly, because (i) assessments …

low-educated families with children. We then develop and estimate a household search model that incorporates the pre …