Replication data for: Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Name: Replication data for: Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Published: 2017-02-01
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Keywords: Social Security and Unemployment Insurance Records Austria

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Arash Nekoei; Andrea Weber

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Project Citation:

Nekoei, Arash, and Weber, Andrea. Replication data for: Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113058V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Social Security and Unemployment Insurance Records Austria

JEL Classification:
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
      J65 Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

Geographic Coverage: Austria

Time Period(s): 1980 – 2013

Universe: Individuals enrolled in the public pension and unemployment insurance systems in Austria

Data Type(s): administrative records data

Methodology

Data Source: This is a linked employer-employee database that covers the universe of Austrian workers in the private sector from 1972 onward. Detail information is provided in Zweimuller, J., R. Winter-Ebmer, R. Lalive, A. Kuhn, J.-P. Wuellrich, O. Ruf, and S. Buchi (2009). Austrian Social Security Database. Working Paper 0903, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State.2 It is possible for other researchers (including US-based researchers) to buy these data here https://arbeitsmarktdatenbank

Unit(s) of Observation: individual unemployment spells,

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