Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity

Zweimüller, Josef and Rafael Lalive
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No 3363, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: 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 programme was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labour market problems. 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.

Keywords: Quasi-experiments; Policy endogeneity; Benefit entitlement; Maximum benefit duration; Unemployment duration; Unemployment insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-05
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