%0 Report
        %A Lalive, Rafael
%A Zweimüller, Josef
        %T Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity
        %D 2002
        %8 2002 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 492
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp492
        %X 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.
        %K maximum benefit duration
%K quasi-experiments
%K unemployment duration
%K unemployment insurance
%K benefit entitlement
%K policy endogeneity