Author : Jan C. van Ours
Release : 2006
Genre : Employment Office
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Quality of Post-unemployment Jobs by : Jan C. van Ours
Download or read book Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Quality of Post-unemployment Jobs written by Jan C. van Ours. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 no effect on the type of contract (temporary versus permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment job, or the wage earned in the job.