Discussion paper

DP6711 Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

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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Citation

Micklewright, J and G Nagy (2008), ‘DP6711 Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6711. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp6711