Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that substantially reduced the potential benefit duration. Althou...

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Main Authors:	van Ours, Jan C., Vodopivec, Milan
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACTIVE LABOR ACTIVE LABOR MARKET ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS AVERAGE WAGE BENEFIT ENTITLEMENTS BUSINESS CYCLE CASH BENEFITS COLLUSION COUNSELING DEPENDENTS DISABILITY ELASTICITY ELIGIBILITY EMPLOYMENT OFFICE EMPLOYMENT OFFICES EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ENTITLEMENT FORMAL SECTOR WORKERS HUMAN CAPITAL INCENTIVE EFFECTS INCOME SUPPORT INFORMATION JOB JOB DURATION JOB MATCH JOB MATCHES JOB OFFERS JOB SEARCH JOB SEPARATION JOB TENURE JOB VACANCIES JOB-SEARCH ASSISTANCE JOBS LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MORAL HAZARD OCCUPATION OLDER WOMEN OLDER WORKERS PAYING JOBS PERMANENT JOB PERMANENT JOBS POSITIVE EFFECTS PREVIOUS WAGE PREVIOUS WORK PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE PREVIOUS WORKING PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODEL RE-EMPLOYMENT BONUSES SELF-EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS SOCIAL INSURANCE SOCIAL SECURITY STABLE JOBS TEMPORARY JOB TEMPORARY JOBS TRAINING COURSES TRANSITION COUNTRIES UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED JOB SEEKERS UNEMPLOYED WORKERS UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SYSTEM UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION UNEMPLOYMENT DURATIONS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SYSTEM UNEMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES UNEMPLOYMENT RATE UNEMPLOYMENT SPELL UNEMPLOYMENT SPELLS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL WAGE DATA WAGE GAINS WAGE LEVEL WAGES WORK EXPERIENCE WORKER WORKERS WORKING EXPERIENCE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/10/7122151/duration-unemployment-benefits-quality-post-unemployment-jobs-evidence-natural-experiment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9005

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Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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