STRUCTURAL EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF JOB SEARCH MONITORING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas
• 署名单位: University of Bristol; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12376
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 879-903
• 关键词: unemployment; work; duration; requirements; PROGRAMS; models; EXIT

摘要

To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages and job-to-job mobility. We structurally estimate a model with search channels, using a controlled trial in which monitoring is randomized. The data include registers and survey data on search behavior. We find that the opportunity to move to better-paid jobs in employment reduces the extent to which monitoring induces substitution toward formal search channels in unemployment. Job mobility compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We examine counterfactual policies against moral hazard, like reemployment bonuses and changes of the benefits path.