This paper analyses some data on the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. The data in drawn from the Labour Force Survey (EPA) and the Survey on Social Conditions of the Spanish Unemployed (CSDE). For their part, the EPA data do not show any significant effect of benefits on job search. The CSDE data confirm those results: neither active job search, subjectively defined by respondents to the survey, nor their various search methods, nor the number of those methods are significantly influenced by the various types of benefits. However, benefit recipients do show a smaller probability of accepting a job that implying a lower wage or a part-time schedule.

Keywords: unemployment benefits, job search.
JEL classification: J64, J65.