Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … 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 …

, employment and earnings. A reform of the Swiss unemployment insurance in July 2003 increased the replacement rate by up to 5 …This paper discusses the effects of a higher unemployment benefit replacement rate on unemployment durations … approach. The increase in the replacement rate increased unemployment durations, while it did not affect post-unemployment …