Job search monitoring and unemployment duration in Hungary: evidence from a randomised control trial
Job search monitoring and unemployment duration in Hungary: evidence from a randomised control trial
The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, administrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is good reason to investigate this issue in Hungary. We then report on results from a field experiment of the impact of tightening the administration of benefits in which benefit claimants were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Treatment has quite a large effect on durations on benefit of women aged 30 and over while we find no effect for younger women or for men.
experiment, job search, unemployment insurance, Hungary, J64, J65, P23
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
Micklewright, John
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Nagy, Gyula
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15 November 2005
Micklewright, John
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Nagy, Gyula
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Micklewright, John and Nagy, Gyula
(2005)
Job search monitoring and unemployment duration in Hungary: evidence from a randomised control trial
(S3RI Applications and Policy Working Papers, A05/08)
Southampton, UK.
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
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The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, administrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is good reason to investigate this issue in Hungary. We then report on results from a field experiment of the impact of tightening the administration of benefits in which benefit claimants were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Treatment has quite a large effect on durations on benefit of women aged 30 and over while we find no effect for younger women or for men.
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Published date: 15 November 2005
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experiment, job search, unemployment insurance, Hungary, J64, J65, P23
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John Micklewright
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Gyula Nagy
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