Unemployment assistance in Hungary

Gyula Nagy () and John Micklewright ()
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Gyula Nagy: Department of Human Resources, Budapest University of Economics, Fövám tér 8, H-1093 Budapest, Hungary

Empirical Economics, 1998, vol. 23, issue 1/2, 155-175

Abstract: Low outflow rates from unemployment and cuts in benefit entitlement periods resulted in sharp reductions in the coverage by Unemployment Insurance of the unemployed stock in Central and Eastern European countries during the 1990s. From mid-1994 in Hungary the most common benefit received by the registered unemployed stock is means-tested Unemployment Assistance (UA) but so far very little is known about its receipt. In the paper, using microdata from the unemployment register we investigate the operation of the UA scheme in Hungary, including the benefit levels, the characteristics of benefit recipients and the determinants of flows to and from receipt.

Keywords: Unemployment; benefit; ·; Hungary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-09-01
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