The Relationship between Unemployment Benefits and Re‐employment Probabilities: Evidence from Spain*

Jenkins, Stephen P.; García‐Serrano, Carlos

doi:10.1046/j.0305-9049.2003.00083.x

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“…5 A different extraction from Social Security records was previously used to study employment and unemployment spells through the use of duration models in García-Fontes and Hopenhayn (1996), García-Pérez (1997), and García-Pérez and Muñoz-Bullón (2005a, 2005b, but they only have data up to the year 1999. On the other hand, Cebrián et al (1996), Arranz and Muro(2004) and Jenkins and García-Serrano (2004) have used HSIPRE.…”

Section: The Data and Samplementioning

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Exits from unemployment: Recall or new job

Alba-Ramirez¹,

Muñoz²,

Muñoz‐Bullón³

2007

Labour Economics

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This paper studies transitions out of unemployment in Spain distinguishing between recall to the same employer and reemployment in a new job. We use a large sample of newly unemployed workers obtained from Social Security records for Spain. These data contain information about each individual's employer identity before and after the unemployment spell. A discrete-time duration model with competing risks of exits serves us to investigate the factors that influence the probabilities of leaving unemployment to return to the same employer or to find a new job with a different employer. We find that the route to exit unemployment is determinant to understand the influence of individual and job characteristics on the hazard rate, as well as the latter dependence on unemployment duration. The recall hazard rate exhibits positive duration dependence during the first months and negative duration dependence thereafter (it is larger for females), while the new-job hazard presents positive duration dependence (it is larger for males). JEL Classification Numbers: J21, J24.

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Section: The Data and Samplementioning

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Exits from unemployment: Recall or new job

Alba-Ramirez¹,

Muñoz²,

Muñoz‐Bullón³

2007

Labour Economics

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“…Many studies have stressed that individual transitions out of unemployment depend on the extent to which recall by the previous employer is expected (Jensen and Westerga˚rd-Nielsen, 1990;Corak, 1996;Rosholm and Svarer, 2001;Jensen and Svarer, 2003;Røed and Nordberg, 2003). In Spain, research on unemployment duration has exclusively focused on the generosity of the UCS without distinguishing recalls from new job hazards (Alba, 1999;Bover et al, 2002;Gonzalo, 2002;Jenkins and Garcı´a-Serrano, 2004;Arranz and Muro, 2007;Arranz et al, 2009).…”

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“…Second, prior Spanish literature on unemployment duration has only used information on the duration of insured unemployment -which is a censored estimate of the duration of the jobless spell and, therefore, a poor proxy for the actual time a worker spends without a job (e.g. Muro, 2004, 2007;Jenkins and Garcı´a-Serrano, 2004;Arranz et al, 2009). In this sense, an important departure of our study is that we construct a data set that measures the duration of unemployment, instead of only the length of benefit receipt.…”

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Re-employment probabilities of unemployment benefit recipients

2012

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This article studies transitions out of unemployment for benefit recipients in Spain. We analyse the duration of unemployment, distinguishing between spells that end in recall (workers returning to the previous employer) and spells that end in exit to a new job. This distinction allows us to find that the recall hazard rate increases around the time of exhaustion of benefits. However, this happens only for workers receiving Unemployment Insurance (UI). Because we are unable to replicate this result for workers receiving Unemployment Assistance (UA), we believe the finding lends support to the hypothesis that in Spain firms and workers make a strategic use of UI.

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“…The personal characteristics we consider are gender, age, education level, nationality, and dependent children. Unlike studies that analyze men only (for example Arulampalam andStewart, 1995, andJenkins andGarcia-Serrano, 2004), we can analyze how the probability of finding a job differs by gender. In 2005, about 51% of the sample were males, but in 2009 this proportion had risen to 57%, reflecting the larger growth in unemployment of males compared to females due to the crisis.…”

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Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis

García

Soest

2014

SSRN Journal

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Using administrative records data from Spanish Social Security, we analyse the pattern and the determinants of individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005)(2006)(2007) and the recent recession (2009)(2010)(2011), allowing us to determine the impact of the current crisis. In line with the duality that characterizes the Spanish labour market, we distinguish between exits to a stable job and exits to an unstable job. We estimate a Multivariate Mixed Proportional Hazard Model for each time period. We find similar effects of the crisis for stable and unstable jobs, which are particularly strong in the first year of the spell. Moreover, slight negative duration dependence is found, especially for stable jobs in the expansion period until the time of unemployment benefit expires.Individuals who are most affected by the financial crisis tend to be males, those aged 16-24 and 40-51 years, those living in regions with higher unemployment rates, individuals who are less qualified or work in manual occupations (particularly construction) and immigrants.

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The Relationship between Unemployment Benefits and Re‐employment Probabilities: Evidence from Spain*

Cited by 45 publications

References 29 publications

Exits from unemployment: Recall or new job

Exits from unemployment: Recall or new job

Re-employment probabilities of unemployment benefit recipients

Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis

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