The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment |
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| Authors: | John Micklewright Gyula Nagy |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Educational Policy (IFAU), Uppsala, Sweden;2. Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), Uppsala, Sweden;3. Department of Economics and Business, Aarhus University, Denmark;4. Centre for Research in Active Labour Market Policy Effects (CAFE), Denmark;5. IZA, Bonn, Germany;1. Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Kleine Märkerstraße 8, D-06108 Halle (Saale), Germany;2. Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Regensburger Str. 104, D-90478 Nürnberg, Germany |
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| 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. |
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