How Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Affects the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By J. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec. Journal of Labor Economics, 2006

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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach (2009, unknown): “Hahn, J., P. Todd, and W. Van der Klaauw (2001): “Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design,” Econometrica, 69(1), 201–209.”
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job? (2007, unknown): “In contrast, a fourth study by van Ours and Vodopivec (2006) nds a large and clearly discernible spike in the re-employment hazard at the point of UI exhaustion for job seekers in Slovenia (row 12).”
How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment (2006, unknown): “Van Ours and Vodopivec (2006) studying PBD reductions in Slovenia find both strong effects on the exit rate out of unemployment and substantial spikes around benefit exhaustion.”
How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach (2008, background): “Heyma and Van Ours (2006) study how the early retirement option affects job finding rates among older workers in the Netherlands.”
Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design (2014, unknown): “Van Ours and Vodopivec (2006) exploit a policy change in Slovenia that involved substantial reductions in the potential duration of UI beneﬁts for four groups of workers while there was no change in beneﬁts for another group, which served as a natural control.”