TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cockx, Bart
AU  - Ries, Jean
        TI  - The Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits in Belgium: Does it Enhance the Probability of Employment?
        PY  - 2004/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1177
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1177
        AB  - In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers:
partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their
entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on
individual characteristics. We contrast three propensity score matching estimators of the
impact of benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment: a standard, a before-after and
an IV matching estimator. We conclude that benefit expiration is anticipated as from the
moment at which the worker is notified, three months in advance, and that it gradually
increases the employment rate up to 25 percentage points 14 months after benefit
withdrawal.
        KW  - unemployment insurance
KW  - programme evaluation
KW  - before-after estimator
KW  - nonparametric methods
        ER  -