Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov (a.launov@kent.ac.uk) and Bruno Van der Linden

No 2011042, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate as 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.

Keywords: Monitoring; sanctions; non-stationary job search; unemployment benefits; structural estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2011-11-21
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Working Paper: Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model (2011)
Working Paper: Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model (2011)
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