Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18865 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1226
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We contrast three propensity score matching estimators of the impact of benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment : a standard, a before-after and an IV matching estimator. We conclude that benefit expiration is anticipated as from the moment at which the worker is notified, three months in advance, and that it gradually increases the employment rate up to 25 percentage points 14 months after benefit withdrawal.
Subjects: 
unemployment insurance
programme evaluation
before-after estimator
nonparametric methods
JEL: 
J68
J65
C14
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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