Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34722 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3016
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in age by one year and in potential maximum duration of benefits by three months. In specifications that take account of unobserved individual heterogeneity, while controlling for pure age effects on escape rates, we find that lower maximum benefit duration is associated with substantially higher quarterly rates of job finding in the range 53 to 106 percent.
Subjects: 
Unemployment benefits
unemployment duration
job search
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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