Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

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John Micklewright () (S3RI, University of Southampton and IZA Bonn)
Gyula Nagy () (Corvinus University of Budapest)

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Abstract

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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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1839.

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Date of creation: Nov 2005
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- John Micklewright & Nagy Gyula, 2005. "Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial," Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market 0509, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. [Downloadable!]

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
P23 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population

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NEP-ALL-2005-12-01 (All new papers)
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