Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. Often overlooked in the public debate is that such support can increase the quality (in terms of wages and duration) of the work found by th...

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Main Author: Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
Format: Article
Published: IZA 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46151/