Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: van Ours, Jan C.; Vodopivee, Milan
• 署名单位: Tilburg University; University of Melbourne; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.05.006
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 684-695
• 关键词: Unemployment insurance; potential benefit duration; job separation rates; post-unemployment wages

摘要

This paper analyzes how a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law affected the quality of jobs workers found after periods of unemployment. Taking advantage the natural experiment we show through difference-in-differences estimation results that reducing the potential duration of unemployment benefits had no detectable effect on wages, on the probability of securing a permanent rather than a temporary job, or on the duration of the post-unemployment job. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.