Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?

This paper analyzes how a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law affected the quality of jobs workers found after periods of unemployment. Taking advantage the "natural experiment" we show through difference-in-differences estimation results that reducing the potential durati...

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Main Authors:	van Ours, Jan C., Vodopivec, Milan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Labor Contracts J410 Unemployment Insurance Severance Pay Plant Closings J650
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4992

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spelling	okr-10986-49922021-04-23T14:02:20Z Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality? van Ours, Jan C. Vodopivec, Milan Labor Contracts J410 Unemployment Insurance Severance Pay Plant Closings J650 This paper analyzes how a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law affected the quality of jobs workers found after periods of unemployment. Taking advantage the "natural experiment" we show through difference-in-differences estimation results that reducing the potential duration of unemployment benefits had no detectable effect on wages, on the probability of securing a permanent rather than a temporary job, or on the duration of the post-unemployment job. 2012-03-30T07:30:44Z 2012-03-30T07:30:44Z 2008 Journal Article Journal of Public Economics 00472727 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4992 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Slovenia
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description	This paper analyzes how a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law affected the quality of jobs workers found after periods of unemployment. Taking advantage the "natural experiment" we show through difference-in-differences estimation results that reducing the potential duration of unemployment benefits had no detectable effect on wages, on the probability of securing a permanent rather than a temporary job, or on the duration of the post-unemployment job.
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author	van Ours, Jan C. Vodopivec, Milan
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title	Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?
title_short	Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?
title_full	Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?
title_fullStr	Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?
title_full_unstemmed	Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?
title_sort	does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?
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Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?

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