PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Aedín Doris
AU  - Donal O’Neill
AU  - Olive Sweetman
TI  - Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits during a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.4.0518-9501R1
DP  - 2020 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 902--925
VI  - 55
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/3/902.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/3/902.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2020 Jul 01; 55
AB  - We use administrative data to examine the effect of a 50 percent benefit cut for young unemployed claimants in Ireland during the Great Recession. Because the cut applied only to new spells, claimants whose unemployment start dates differed by one day received very different benefits; we exploit this feature in a regression discontinuity analysis. We find that the benefit cut significantly reduced unemployment duration, with exits to training and work accounting for the majority of this effect.