We evaluate the effect of a drastic cut in potential benefit duration, reducing the maximum length of UI benefits from …, and we find only negligible negative effects of reemployment wages overall. The notion that changes are due to the reform …

duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable … first line out a framework for treatment effect heterogeneity with two interdependent outcomes, such as duration and wages …Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment …