Arbeitspapier

How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration? A regression discontinuity approach

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the evaluation, I use sharp discontinuities in treatment assignment at age 50 and at the border between eligible regions and control regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by at least .32 weeks per additional week of benefits among women. The salient differences between men and women are consistent with the lower minimum age for early retirement applying to women.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2006:8

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Thema
benefit duration
unemployment duration
early retirement
regression discontinuity
Arbeitslosigkeit
Lohnersatzleistungen
Dauer
Ältere Arbeitskräfte
Flexible Altersgrenze
Schätzung
Österreich

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lalive, Rafael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
(wo)
Uppsala
(wann)
2006

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lalive, Rafael
  • Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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