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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9034
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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unemployment insurance
job-search
wages
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Nekoei, Arash
Weber, Andrea
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
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- Nekoei, Arash
- Weber, Andrea
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015
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