Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20402 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1163
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved heterogeneity. We find that recipients, relative to non-recipients, face lower exit rates from unemployment, while an additional month in unemployment increases their subsequent employment stability. This positive correlation between previous unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK, recipients who search for a longer period within the first year in unemployment obtain higher employment stability.
Subjects: 
unemployment insurance
unemployment duration
employment duration
duration analysis
JEL: 
C41
J64
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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