-state unemployment rate. We draw on policy changes in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration from 30 to 52 weeks for individuals …-state unemployment rate between 20% and 50%; (ii) surprisingly, most of the increase is due to an increase in the inflow into … unemployment, whereas the decrease in the outflow from unemployment is modest; (iii) the effects are stronger for women than for …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected: the paper finds that the law change had no effect on either the type of …

-in-differences estimation results that reducing the potential duration of unemployment benefits had no detectable effect on wages, on the …This paper analyzes how a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law affected the quality of jobs workers found … after periods of unemployment. Taking advantage the "natural experiment" we show through difference …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected. The paper finds that the law change had no effect on the type of contract …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected. The paper finds that the law change had no effect on the type of contract …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while …

wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits, it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not effected by smoking and drinking …