@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp492,
            	author={Lalive, Rafael and Zweimüller, Josef},
            	title={Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity},
            	year={2002},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={492},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp492},
	abstract={The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of
unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged
entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for
elderly individuals in certain regions of Austria. In the evaluation, we explicitly account for the
fact that the program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with
severe labor market problems. The main results are: (i) REBP reduced the transition rate to
jobs by 17 %; (ii) accounting for endogenous policy adoption is important and quantitatively
significant.},
	keywords={maximum benefit duration;quasi-experiments;unemployment duration;unemployment insurance;benefit entitlement;policy endogeneity},
            }