consistent with equilibrium matching models with or without endogenous sorting of workers into jobs providing entitlement to UBs … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … scratch of unemployment benefits in many countries. We exploit the longitudinal nature of our data to lessen the potentially …

, control variables or estimation methods. We discuss to what extent our results are consistent with equilibrium matching models … with or without endogenous sorting of workers into jobs providing entitlement to UBs and stochastic job matching … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. In this paper, we use a new set of yearly panel data from a …