that the case for imposing a penalty on less active job search is fairly solid. A growing number of empirical studies …

program. Our results show that job finding increased as a result of the shorter duration of passive benefits. The time profile … of the job-finding effects suggests that the effects are due to deterrence effects during the program-entry phase. We … find no evidence of wage reductions, suggesting that the increased job-finding rate was driven by increased search …

and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs …. We find that both programs reduce the chances of finding a job substantially. Moreover, both programs are associated with … a locking-in e.ect: the probability of finding a job outside the home region decreases after program participation …

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The … referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish …