Attila is a Research Fellow at IFS and an Associate Professor at University College London. His interests are in public economics, labor economics and psychology & economics.
Education
PhD Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2015
MA Economics, Central European University , 2009
Diploma Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest, 2007
In this paper, we present new evidence on the employment effect and the incidence of the minimum wage by exploiting a very large and persistent increase in the minimum wage in Hungary.
Unemployment insurance programs in most Western countries follow a common design. The benefits are set at a constant replacement rate for a fixed period, typically followed by lower
benefits under unemployment assistance. In such systems, the hazard rate from unemployment typically declines from an initial peak the longer workers are unemployed, surges at
unemployment exhaustion, and declines thereafter.
