In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers:
partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their
entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on
individual characteristics. We contrast three propensity score matching estimators of the
impact of benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment: a standard, a before-after and
an IV matching estimator. We conclude that benefit expiration is anticipated as from the
moment at which the worker is notified, three months in advance, and that it gradually
increases the employment rate up to 25 percentage points 14 months after benefit
withdrawal.
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