unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment …

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of … autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy levels, we examine the patterns of new matches in regions, identify … clusters of regions of particularly intense interregional matching, and examine the effects of German re-unification. After …

. -- Sticky wages ; staggered Nash bargaining ; trend inflation ; unemployment ; search and matching …This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage … labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment …