Shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits does not affect the quality of post-unemployment jobs
Subtitle: evidence from a natural experiment
By: by Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec
Contributors: Vodopivec, Milan
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2171; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2171
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Unemployment; Job hunting; Employment forecasting
Description: "This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that substantially reduced the potential benefit duration. Although this reduction strongly increased job finding rates, the quality of the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected: the paper finds that the law change had no effect on either the type of the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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