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. Although this reduction strongly increased job finding rates, the quality of the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected. The paper finds that the law change had...
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2006/10/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS4031
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Duration of unemployment benefits and quality of post-unemployment jobs : evidence from a natural experiment
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permanent job