The Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits in Belgium. Does it Enhance the Probability of Employment ?

Bart Cockx and Ries Jean
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Ries Jean: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

No 2004016, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers : partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We contrast three propensity score matching estimators of the impact of benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment : a standard, a before-after and a IV matching estimator. We conclude that benefit expiration is anticipated as from the moment at which the worker is notified, three months in advance, and that it gradually increases the employment rate up to 25 percentage points 14 months after benefit withdrawal.

Keywords: Unemployment insurance; benefit exhaustion; programme evaluation; before-after estimator; nonparametric methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53
Date: 2004-06-01
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