Duration of Unemployment Benefits And Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs Evidence From A Natural Experiment
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. Althou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C
The World Bank
2006
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| Collection: | World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 the type of contract (temporary versus permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment job, or the wage earned in the job |
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| Physical Description: | 33 p. |