Unemployment benefits and job match quality – Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent economic crisis. Often overlooked in this debate is that such support can increase the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This lecture will discuss the mechanisms through which unemployment insurance can lead to better jobs and present the existing empirical evidence from various countries.
About the speaker
Konstantinos Tatsiramos holds a joint professorship of labour economics at the University of Luxembourg and LISER since January 2018. Previously, he held positions as an associate professor at the University of Nottingham and as a senior research associate at IZA in Bonn. He is co-editor of the book series “Research in Labor Economics” and subject editor of IZA World of Labor.
Prof. Tatsiramos studied economics at the European University Institute in Florence where he obtained his doctorate degree in 2004 after completing an MSc in Economics at University College London and a Bachelor’s degree at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Introduction by Prof. Katalin Ligeti, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance and by Prof. Aline Muller, CEO Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
A reception will be held after the lecture.