%0 Report
        %A Berg, Gerard J. van den
%A Klaauw, Bas van der
        %T Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
        %D 2013
        %8 2013 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7740
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7740
        %X We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes.
We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the structural estimates to compare monitoring to counterfactual policies against moral hazard, like re-employment bonuses and changes in the unemployment benefits path. Replacing monitoring by an overall benefits reduction in a way that is neutral to the worker results in slightly smaller effects with lower administrative costs.
        %K search channels
%K treatment
%K job mobility
%K job duration
%K wage
%K active labor market policy
%K search effort
%K unemployment duration
%K multi-tasking
%K randomized social experiment