Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … dynamic treatment effects and mediation analyses, we find PBD to affect wages even for workers who do not change unemployment …

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 …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …