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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.

Employment Office --- Human Capital --- Job --- Job Match --- Job Matches --- Job Search --- Job Separation --- Job Tenure --- Jobs --- Labor Markets --- Re-Employment Bonuses --- Social Protections and Labor --- Unemployed --- Unemployment --- Unemployment Benefits --- Unemployment Durations --- Unemployment Insurance --- Unemployment Outcomes --- Unemployment Spell --- Unemployment Spells --- Wage Gains --- Worker