Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration - The role of policy endogeneity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lalive, R; Zweimüller, J
• 署名单位: University of Zurich
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2003.10.002
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 2587-2616
• 关键词: quasi-experiments; Policy endogeneity; benefit entitlement; maximum benefit duration; Unemployment duration; unemployment insurance

摘要

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions of Austria. in the evaluation, we explicitly account for the fact that the program was an endogenous policy response to deteriorating labor market conditions for older workers in certain regions and sectors. The main results are: (i) REBP reduced the transition rate to jobs by 17%; (ii) accounting for endogenous policy adoption is important and quantitatively significant. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.