The Effects of Unemployment Assistance on Unemployment Exits

Tomi Kyyrä

No 14194, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates the effects of a reform in Finland that increased the level of unemployment assistance by 22%. The reform led to a drop of 9% in the unemployment exit hazard, which can be attributed to fewer exits to both employment and inactivity. The implied elasticities suggest that a 10% increase in unemployment assistance reduces the unemployment exit hazard by 4% and the job finding hazard by 6%. These effects are relatively small compared to the existing evidence on the effects of unemployment insurance benefits.

Keywords: unemployment assistance; labor market subsidy; hazard rate; unemployment duration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2021-03
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Published - published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2023, 30, 1457–1480

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