TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
        TI  - Geographic Labour Mobility and Unemployment Insurance in Europe
        PY  - 2004/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1253
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1253
        AB  - Conventional wisdom suggests that unemployment benefits create a stronger geographic attachment by lowering the willingness of the unemployed to accept job offers. We assess empirically the effect of benefits on geographic labour mobility using individual data from the European Community Household Panel for France, Germany, Spain, and the UK. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we find that receiving benefits enhances mobility offsetting the negative effect of benefits on the incentives to move. We estimate binary choice panel data models controlling for unobserved heterogeneity using random and fixed effects. The results are invariant to the estimated model.
        KW  - discrete choice panel data
KW  - unemployment insurance
KW  - geographic labour mobility
        ER  -