Do Unemployment Benefits Favour Job-Search?

B. Decreuse

G.R.E.Q.A.M. from Universite Aix-Marseille III

Abstract: Most of the literature on unemployment benefits assumes that they are detrimental to the search effort. However, search is costly and the unemployment are largely finance-constrained. We here consider that search intensity depends on the financial spendings of the worker.

Keywords: UNEMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL SECURITY; GOVERNMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 1999
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