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The Lock-In Effects of Part-Time Unemployment Benefits

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  • Hélène Benghalem

    (Université de Lausanne (UNIL))

  • Pierre Cahuc

    (Département d'économie (ECON))

  • Pierre Villedieu

    (Département d'économie)

Abstract

We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job seekers regarding this program and sent emails presenting the program. The information provision had a significant positive impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects into unemployment associated with part-time unemployment benefits. The importance of these lock-in effects implies that increasing the marginal tax rate on earnings from work while on claim in the neighborhood of its current level would not decrease labor supply and would decrease the expenditure net of taxes of the unemployment insurance agency.

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  • Hélène Benghalem & Pierre Cahuc & Pierre Villedieu, 2021. "The Lock-In Effects of Part-Time Unemployment Benefits," Sciences Po Economics Discussion Papers 2021-03, Sciences Po Departement of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:spo:wpecon:info:hdl:2441/3eqvfrusqi97g9fr9cuc7t5gkd
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    Cited by:

    1. Antoine Bertheau & Edoardo Maria Acabbi & Cristina Barceló & Andreas Gulyas & Stefano Lombardi & Raffaele Saggio, 2023. "The Unequal Consequences of Job Loss across Countries," American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association, vol. 5(3), pages 393-408, September.
    2. Tito Boeri & Pierre Cahuc, 2022. "Labor Market Insurance Policies in the XXI Century," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03878719, HAL.
    3. Susanne Ek Spector, 2022. "Should unemployment insurance cover partial unemployment?," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 199-199, June.

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    Keywords

    Unemployment insurance; Part-time unemployment benefits; Lock-in effects; Unemployment duration;
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    JEL classification:

    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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