Living standards and incentives in transition: the implications of UI exhaustion in Hungary
Living standards and incentives in transition: the implications of UI exhaustion in Hungary
The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by exhausting entitlement to benefit. Two questions follow. First, what are the implications of the cessation of UI for living standards? Second, does UI exhaustion have much effect on the probability of getting a job through increasing incentives to work? We investigate these issues with a survey of persons exhausting entitlement to UI in summer, 1995, paying special attention to the household circumstances of the unemployed and to the probabilities of claiming and being awarded means-tested assistance benefit.
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Micklewright, John
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Nagy, Gyula
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September 1999
Micklewright, John
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Nagy, Gyula
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Micklewright, John and Nagy, Gyula
(1999)
Living standards and incentives in transition: the implications of UI exhaustion in Hungary.
Journal of Public Economics, 73 (3), .
(doi:10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00015-8).
Abstract
The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by exhausting entitlement to benefit. Two questions follow. First, what are the implications of the cessation of UI for living standards? Second, does UI exhaustion have much effect on the probability of getting a job through increasing incentives to work? We investigate these issues with a survey of persons exhausting entitlement to UI in summer, 1995, paying special attention to the household circumstances of the unemployed and to the probabilities of claiming and being awarded means-tested assistance benefit.
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Published date: September 1999
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