Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/78662 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2007:21
Publisher: 
Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
In January 2003, the unemployment benefits in Finland were increased for workers with long employment histories. The average benefit increase was 15 per cent for the first 150 days of the unemployment spell. In this paper we evaluate the effect of the benefit increase on the duration of unemployment by comparing the changes in the re-employment hazard profiles among the unemployed who became eligible for the increased benefits to the changes in a comparison group whose benefit structure remained unchanged. We find that the benefit increase reduced the re-employment hazards at the beginning of the unemployment spell. The effect disappears after the eligibility period for the increased benefit expires.
Subjects: 
Unemployment insurance
duration models
JEL: 
J64
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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