PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mário Centeno
TI  - The Match Quality Gains from Unemployment Insurance
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.3.839
DP  - 2004 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 839--863
VI  - XXXIX
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/3/839.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/3/839.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2004 Jul 01; XXXIX
AB  - 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.