The Relationship between Unemployment Benefits and Re‐employment Probabilities: Evidence from Spain*
首次提供西班牙证据，发现失业救济金水平提高会小幅降低再就业概率，但影响因性别、失业时长和地区而异；救济金即将到期时再就业概率略有上升。
Abstract We provide the first Spanish evidence about the effects on re‐employment probabilities of variations in benefit levels and time‐to‐exhaustion. Increases in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels had a small disincentive effect on the re‐employment hazard on average. Around this average, there were larger disincentive effects for men with elapsed durations between 4 and 18 months, whereas for men unemployed longer than 18 months, or for men resident in the south, the effect was negligible. Re‐employment hazards increased when UI exhaustion was imminent, but the change was small. Extensions to unemployment assistance eligibility in 1989 for men aged 45+ years lowered re‐employment probabilities.