Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67329 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6992
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The fact that unemployed workers have different abilities to smooth consumption entails heterogeneous responses to extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment wage distribution; individuals at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution reacted less than those in the interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings. It questions the optimality of very long entitlement periods to target the unemployment experiences of low-wage workers.
Subjects: 
unemployment insurance
unemployment duration
entitlement extension
liquidity effect
JEL: 
J65
J64
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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