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

Arbeitspapier

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, ad-ministrative 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 as-signed to treatment and control groups. Treatment has quite a large ef-fect on durations on benefit of women aged 30 and over while we find no effect for younger women or for men.

Object Details

• ISBN: 963958858X
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market ; No. BWP - 2005/9

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
• Subject: experiment ; job search ; unemployment insurance ; Hungary ; Arbeitslosenversicherung ; Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit ; Arbeitsuche ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Ungarn

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Micklewright, John ; Nagy, Gyula
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Labour Research Department
• (where): Budapest
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108421
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET