using annual distributions of recruits' characteristics from a 1975-95 panel of plants in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy …

"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on … heterogeneity. We find that recipients, relative to non-recipients, face lower exit rates from unemployment, while an additional …