Arbeitspapier

Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model incorporating duration dependence determines the UI wage effect as the balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening unemployment. This implies a negative relationship between the UI unemployment duration and wage effects, which holds empirically both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by improving reemployment firms' quality and attenuating wage drops.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9034

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
unemployment insurance
job-search
wages

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Nekoei, Arash
Weber, Andrea
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Nekoei, Arash
  • Weber, Andrea
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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