Potential Unemployment Benefit Duration and Spell Length: Lessons from a Quasi-experiment in Austria

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

No 1534, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The paper studies the effect of potential unemployment benefit duration on the length of unemployment spells in Austria. It takes advantage of a quasi-experimental situation, where potential benefit duration was extended in 1988 for elderly workers living in specific regions of the country. The empirical analysis shows that men react significantly to benefit duration whereas women generally do not. The quantitative impact is smaller than in comparable studies for the Germany and the United States. Furthermore, the impact of extended benefit duration is differentiated for short and long spells. Whereas for long spells higher impacts for men as well as for women are found, no unemployment-prolonging effects for short spells could be detected.

Keywords: Potential Benefit Duration; Unemployment Duration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J41 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-12
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