Maximum Benefits Duration and Older Workers’ Transitions out of Unemployment: a Regression Discontinuity Approach
Mardi | 2011-03-29 B103 Florent FREMIGACCI – Rémi BAZILLIER This paper investigates the relationship between the length of Unemployment Insurance (UI) entitlement and transitions out of unemployment. Our focus is on older job seekers who usually access to longer benefit periods and may withdraw from the labour force via early retirement. We exploit the 2003 reform of the French UI system that involved substantial cuts in benefits for this specificgroup. The design of the reform naturally leads us to adopt […]