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

Author(s): John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy

Publication Date: February 2008

Keyword(s): field experiment, Hungary, job search and unemployment insurance

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: The administration of benefits is a relatively neglected aspect of 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, a method of policy evaluation that is still rare in Europe. Treatment, involving a tightening of claim administration, 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.

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Micklewright, J and Nagy, G. 2008. 'Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6711