Uusitalo, Roope; Verho, Jouko - In: Labour Economics 17 (2010) 4, pp. 643-654
In January 2003, the unemployment benefits in Finland were increased for workers with long employment histories. The average benefit increase was 15% for the first 150Â days of the unemployment spell. At the same time severance pay system was abolished. In this paper we evaluate the effect of...