TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
AU  - Vodopivec, Milan
        TI  - Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
        PY  - 2006/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2171
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2171
        AB  - 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 either the type of the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job.
        KW  - post-unemployment wages
KW  - unemployment insurance
KW  - job separation rates
KW  - potential benefit duration
        ER  -