Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? Comment

Zhaoguo Zhan

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Abstract: In contrast with a large body of existing literature, Nekoei and Weber (2017, NW henceforth) find a positive effect of unemployment insurance on job quality. This comment shows that NW's finding is driven by unnecessarily large bandwidths used in their regression discontinuity analysis. When the focus is on the data near the cutoff of the regression discontinuity design, the significantly positive effect documented in NW vanishes. Thus, re-examining NW's empirical analysis leads to results that are consistent with, rather than contrary to, many past studies. Our findings indicate the importance of using a range of bandwidths in future studies.

Keywords: unemployment insurance; job quality; regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-08-15
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