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Title: Potential Unemployment Benefit Duration and Spell Length: Lessons from a Quasi-experiment in Austria

Author(s): Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Publication Date: December 1996

Keyword(s): Potential Benefit Duration and Unemployment Duration

Programme Area(s): Human Resources

Abstract: The paper studies the effect of potential unemployment benefit duration on the length of unemployment spells in Austria. It takes advantage of a quasi-experimental situation, where potential benefit duration was extended in 1988 for elderly workers living in specific regions of the country. The empirical analysis shows that men react significantly to benefit duration whereas women generally do not. The quantitative impact is smaller than in comparable studies for the Germany and the United States. Furthermore, the impact of extended benefit duration is differentiated for short and long spells. Whereas for long spells higher impacts for men as well as for women are found, no unemployment-prolonging effects for short spells could be detected.

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Winter-Ebmer, R. 1996. 'Potential Unemployment Benefit Duration and Spell Length: Lessons from a Quasi-experiment in Austria'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1534