Weber, Andrea, Nekoei, Arash. 2017. Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? American Economic Review 107 (2), 527-561.

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@ARTICLE{Weber2017,
title = {Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?},
author = {Andrea Weber and Arash Nekoei},
year = {2017},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20150528},
volume = {107},
number = {2},
language = {EN},
pages = {527-561},
journal = {American Economic Review},
abstract = {Contrary to standard search models predictions, past studies have not found a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. We estimate a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity design in Austria. A search model incorporating duration dependence predicts two countervailing forces: UI induces workers to seek higher-wage jobs, but reduces wages by lengthening unemployment. Matching-function heterogeneity plausibly generates a negative relationship between the UI unemployment-duration and wage effects, which holds empirically in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by improving reemployment firm quality and attenuating wage drops.},
}