Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality

By J. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec. 2008

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design (2014, unknown): “Van Ours and Vodopivec (2008) use the policy change in Slovenia which reduced the PBD for many groups of workers substantially to investigate the quality of post-unemployment jobs.”
• Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach (2009, unknown): “Many empirical studies have investigated the effect of potential benefit duration on the exit rate from unemployment (e.g. Meyer, 1990; Katz and Meyer, 1990; Card and Levine, 2000, for the US, Roed and Zhang, 2003; Lalive, Van Ours, Zweimüller, 2006; Van Ours and Vodopivec, 2006; Card, Chetty and W”
• Reference-Dependent Job Search: Evidence from Hungary (2017, unknown): “…been shown in a variety of settings, such as Germany (Schmieder, Von Wachter and Bender 2012a), Austria (Card, Chetty and Weber 2007a), Slovenia (van Ours and Vodopivec 2008), Hungary (Micklewright and Nagy 1999) or France (Le Barbanchon 2012).1 It is well-known that a basic job search model a’…”
• Learning Your Comparative Advantages (2014, result): “…that incorporates all the above mechanisms is beyond the scope of this paper, our results partly explain why most empirical studies have had diffi culty detecting the positive impact of unemployment insurance on the match quality that had been previously presumed (van Ours and Vodopivec (2008)).”
• Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? (2017, methodology): “Van Ours and Vodopivec (2008) use an experience-based difference-in-difference approach in Slovenia.”