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| Title: | | Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity  |
| Authors: | | Lalive, Rafael Zweimüller, Josef |
| Issue Date: | | 2002 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 492 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | quasi-experiments policy endogeneity benefit entitlement maximum benefit duration unemployment duration unemployment insurance |
| JEL: | | J65 J64 C41 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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