PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Benghalem, Hélène
AU  - Cahuc, Pierre
AU  - Villedieu, Pierre
TI  - The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0522-12328R2
DP  - 2023 Oct 06
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0522-12328R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/10/02/jhr.0522-12328R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/10/02/jhr.0522-12328R2.full
AB  - We conducted a large randomized controlled experiment that provides information on part-time unemployment benefits to unemployment insurance recipients in France. The information provision had a significant positive impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects into unemployment associated with part-time unemployment benefits. The extension of the duration of compensated unemployment counterbalanced the increase in the number of days worked while on claim so that the net expenditure of unemployment insurance remained unchanged.