Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration. The role of policy endogeneity

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2587-2616

  Lalive, Rafael ^a,b   Zweimüller, Josef ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CESifo ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benefit entitlement; Maximum benefit duration; Policy endogeneity; Quasi experiments; Unemployment duration; Unemployment insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444261746     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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