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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Behavior*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics ( IF 11.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 , DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjaa037
Ioana Marinescu 1 , Daphné Skandalis 2
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Abstract
How does unemployment insurance (UI) affect unemployed workers’ search behavior? Search models predict that until benefit exhaustion, UI depresses job search effort and increases reservation wages. Over an unemployment spell, search effort should increase up to benefit exhaustion and stay high thereafter. Meanwhile, reservation wages should decrease up to benefit exhaustion and stay low thereafter. To test these predictions, we link administrative registers to data on job search behavior from a major online job search platform in France. We follow over 400,000 workers, as long as they remain unemployed. We analyze the changes in search behavior around benefits exhaustion and take two steps to isolate the individual response to unemployment benefits. First, our longitudinal data allows us to correct for changes in sample composition over the spell. Second, we exploit data on workers eligible for 12–24 months of UI as well as workers ineligible for UI, to control for behavior changes over the unemployment spell that are independent of UI. Our results confirm the predictions of search models. We find that search effort (the number of job applications) increases by at least 50% during the year preceding benefits exhaustion and remains high thereafter. The target monthly wage decreases by at least 2.4% during the year preceding benefits exhaustion and remains low thereafter. In addition, we provide evidence for duration dependence: workers decrease the wage they target by 1.5% over each year of unemployment, irrespective of their UI status.


中文翻译:

失业保险和求职行为*

摘要
失业保险(UI)如何影响失业工人的搜寻行为?搜索模型预测,在收益用尽之前,UI会压低求职工作并增加预留工资。在失业期间,搜索工作应增加以使疲惫不堪,此后保持较高水平。同时,保留工资应降低以利于用尽,此后保持较低水平。为了检验这些预测,我们将行政登记册链接到法国主要在线求职平台上有关求职行为的数据。只要他们保持失业状态,我们就会跟踪超过40万名工人。我们分析了围绕福利耗尽的搜索行为的变化,并采取了两个步骤来隔离个人对失业福利的反应。首先,我们的纵向数据使我们能够校正该咒语中样本成分的变化。其次,我们利用有资格获得UI的12-24个月的工人以及没有资格获得UI的工人的数据,来控制失业期间与UI无关的行为变化。我们的结果证实了搜索模型的预测。我们发现搜寻工作量(求职人数)在福利耗尽之前的一年中至少增加了50%,此后仍然很高。在福利耗尽之前的一年中,目标月工资至少降低了2.4%,此后仍保持较低水平。此外,我们提供了与工期有关的证据:工人在失业期间每年将其目标工资降低1.5%,而不论其UI状态如何。来控制失业法的行为变化,这些变化与UI无关。我们的结果证实了搜索模型的预测。我们发现搜寻工作量(求职人数)在福利耗尽之前的一年中至少增加了50%,此后仍然很高。在福利耗尽之前的一年中,目标月工资至少降低了2.4%,此后仍保持较低水平。此外,我们提供了与工期有关的证据:工人在失业期间每年将其目标工资降低1.5%,而不论其UI状态如何。来控制失业法的行为变化,这些变化与UI无关。我们的结果证实了搜索模型的预测。我们发现搜寻工作量(求职人数)在福利耗尽之前的一年中至少增加了50%,此后仍然很高。在福利耗尽之前的一年中,目标月工资至少降低了2.4%,此后仍保持较低水平。此外,我们提供了与工期有关的证据:工人在失业期间每年将其目标工资降低1.5%,而不论其UI状态如何。在福利耗尽之前的一年中,目标月工资至少降低了2.4%,此后仍保持较低水平。此外,我们提供了与工期有关的证据:工人在失业期间每年将其目标工资降低1.5%,而不论其UI状态如何。在福利耗尽之前的一年中,目标月工资至少降低了2.4%,此后仍保持较低水平。此外,我们提供了与工期有关的证据:工人在失业期间每年将其目标工资降低1.5%,而不论其UI状态如何。
更新日期:2020-10-31
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