How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment

Economics Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-107

  Tuit, Sander ^a   van Ours, Jan C ^a,b,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maximum benefit duration; Natural experiment; Unemployment inflow; Unemployment insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957149189     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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