Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69325 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7077
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment security offices: one includes information about the circumstances of job seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs. We first show a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job seekers who changed search behaviors in the final 59 days before expiration of unemployment insurance, we secondly show an even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the duration of unemployment. If job seekers keep a high reservation wage and a low search intensity because of the benefits of unemployment insurance, and change them in response to the expiration of insurance, prolonged unemployment will result in short job duration after unemployment.
Subjects: 
unemployment duration
unemployment insurance
job search
job stability
administrative data
Japan
JEL: 
J64
J65
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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