The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration

Moshe Ben-Horim and Dror Zuckerman

Journal of Labor Economics, 1987, vol. 5, issue 3, 386-90

Abstract: This paper shows that unemployment insurance benefits could decrease the expected duration of unemployment induced by search. An unemployed person who has to fin ance search from limited resources may use the benefits to intensify search effort and lower the expected duration of employment. Copyright 1987 by University of Chicago Press.

Date: 1987
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