The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: evidence from a field experiment

John Micklewright () and Gyula Nagy
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Gyula Nagy: Department of Human Resources, Corvinus University of Budapest

No 09-02, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: Programme administration is a relatively neglected issue in the analysis of disincentive effects of unemployment benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary involving random assignment of benefit claimants to treatment and control groups. Treatment increases the monitoring of claims - claimants make more frequent visits to the employment office and face questioning about their search behaviour. 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 men.

Keywords: field experiment; monitoring; job search; unemployment insurance; Hungary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J65 P23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2009-11-26
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-ias and nep-lab
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Forthcoming in Labour Economics

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