Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58994 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6181
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction level. After validating the model both internally and externally, we conclude that the scheme is effective in raising the job finding rate with minor wage losses. A basic cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that welfare losses for the unemployed are compensated by net efficiency gains for public authorities and society.
Subjects: 
monitoring
sanctions
non-stationary job search
unemployment benefits
structural estimation
JEL: 
J64
J68
C41
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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