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dc.contributor.authorLalive, Rafaelen
dc.contributor.authorvan Ours, Jan C.en
dc.contributor.authorZweimüller, Josefen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:15:46Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:15:46Z-
dc.date.issued2004-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20660-
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – thebenefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect theduration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made unemployment insurancemore generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regularunemployment benefits and the earnings replacement ratio. We find that increasing thereplacement ratio has much weaker disincentive effects than increasing the maximumduration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemploymentinsurance funds into costs due to changes in the unemployment insurance system and costsdue to behavioral responses of unemployed workers. Results indicate that costs due tobehavioral responses are substantial.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1363en
dc.subject.jelC41en
dc.subject.jelJ65en
dc.subject.jelJ64en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmaximum benefit durationen
dc.subject.keywordreplacement rateen
dc.subject.keywordunemployment durationen
dc.subject.keywordunemployment insuranceen
dc.subject.keywordpolicy changeen
dc.subject.stwArbeitslosenversicherungen
dc.subject.stwReformen
dc.subject.stwArbeitslosigkeiten
dc.subject.stwDaueren
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwÖsterreichen
dc.titleHow Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn475564413en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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