This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with … number of employment weeks required for the new benefit period. Using the exogenous part of the variation for identification …

. Also the re-employment probability and post-unemployment wage are negatively affected. The results for the duration of the … first post-unemployment job are not conclusive, but in total both employment and earnings in the two years following the …This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor …