How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Jan van Ours; M Vodopivec

How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Jan van Ours
, M Vodopivec

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Abstract

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.The disincentive effects are identified by exploiting changes in the UI system in Slovenia, which involved substantial reductions in the potential benefit duration and had characteristics of a "natural experiment".We find that the change had a positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment - both to employment and to other destinations - at various durations of unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Volume	2005-30
Publication status	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Pagination: 33

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