Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?

Jan C. van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

Journal of Public Economics, 2008, vol. 92, issue 3-4, 684-695

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2008
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