TY - BOOK ID - 137274429 TI - Duration of Unemployment Benefits And Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs : Evidence From A Natural Experiment AU - van Ours, Jan C. AU - Vodopivec, Milan PY - 2006 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Employment Office KW - Human Capital KW - Job KW - Job Match KW - Job Matches KW - Job Search KW - Job Separation KW - Job Tenure KW - Jobs KW - Labor Markets KW - Re-Employment Bonuses KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Unemployed KW - Unemployment KW - Unemployment Benefits KW - Unemployment Durations KW - Unemployment Insurance KW - Unemployment Outcomes KW - Unemployment Spell KW - Unemployment Spells KW - Wage Gains KW - Worker UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137274429 AB - This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that substantially reduced the potential benefit duration. Although this reduction strongly increased job finding rates, the quality of the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected. The paper finds that the law change had no effect on the type of contract (temporary versus permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment job, or the wage earned in the job. ER -