Effects of changes in the unemployment insurance eligibility requirements on job duration — Swedish evidence
Labour. Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
2009
23
2
June
237-256
duration ; eligibility ; employment ; unemployment benefit
Unemployment
English
Bibliogr.
"This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration among earlier unemployed in Sweden. I exploit changes in the rules taking place in 1994 and 1997 to study behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation in 1992, 1996, and 1998, respectively. Performing across-year analyses with years involving different working requirements, I find some evidence of clustering of job exits at the time of UI qualification. By using predicted hazard rates for each week, I calculate an approximate 2.3-week extension in average employment duration between 1996 and 1998, due to the 5-week prolonging of the entrance requirement."
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