reservation wages, shifting the labor force towards the more productive firms. The relation between productivity dispersion and UI … policy is mediated by the wage posting policies of firms that take both productivity and policy into account. Optimal UI … policy is shown to crucially depend on the properties of the firm productivity distribution, such as its variance and …

that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed …

search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant … increasing benefits, moral hazard problems for constant benefits and decreasing search productivity for decreasing benefits. …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

with search-matching frictions and on-the-job learning-by-doing. The model shows that societies populated by identical … the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a self-reinforcing mechanism …