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Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration - The Role of Policy Endogeneity Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Rafael Lalive
Josef Zweimüller
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The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions of Austria. In the evaluation, we explicitly account for the fact that the program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main results are: (i) REBP reduced the transition rate to jobs by 17%; (ii) accounting for endogenous policy adoption is important and quantitatively significant.
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Keywords: quasi-experiments ; policy endogeneity ; benefit entitlement ; maximum benefit duration ; unemployment duration ; unemployment insurance ; Other versions of this item:
Article Paper Lalive, Rafael & Zweimüller, Josef, 2002.
"Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity ,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
3363, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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"Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
492, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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