TY - JOUR T1 - The Match Quality Gains from Unemployment Insurance JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 839 LP - 863 DO - 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.3.839 VL - XXXIX IS - 3 AU - Mário Centeno Y1 - 2004/07/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/3/839.abstract N2 - This paper assesses the benefits of unemployment insurance (UI) by measuring its effect in match quality. We note that UI generosity should affect the decision to match or not and should therefore have some effect on match quality. Using NLSY data, we analyze the relationship between postunemployment job tenure and measures of the state-level UI generosity and the unemployment rate at the time the job is started. We show that greater UI generosity leads to longer job tenure. Furthermore, we find some evidence that this effect is more pronounced during busts, UI having a limited dampening effect on the cyclical variation in match quality. ER -