published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (2), 351-378
In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential
duration of unemployment benefits substantially and simultaneously improved employment
services offered to, and monitoring of, the recipients. We find that the reduction in potential
benefit duration had a positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment – both to
employment and to other destinations – at various durations of unemployment spells and for
many categories of unemployed workers. We also identify a clear spike in the exit rate out of
unemployment in the month unemployment benefits expire (and a smaller spike in the month
thereafter), and for males an increase of job-finding rate in the third month of unemployment,
a likely consequence of a reduction of the level of benefit that occurs at that point.
Interestingly, post-unemployment wages of recipients were not affected after the change of
the law, suggesting that higher job-finding rates following the reduction of benefits were not
produced by reduced reservation wages (higher acceptance probability) but rather more
effective job-search activity.
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