Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition: the German experience

Arbeitspapier

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard rate model which accounts for the dynamic nature of the treatment. We find positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can thus be an effective activation tool if they take place not too late in an individual's unemployment spell.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3483

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Thema: Benefit sanctions ; unemployment transitions ; German labor market reform ; ex-post evaluation ; propensity score matching ; hazard rate model ; unobserved heterogeneity ; Arbeitslosenversicherung ; Arbeitsvermittlung ; Rechtsdurchsetzung ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Berufliche Integration ; Arbeitsuche ; Ökonomischer Anreiz ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Dauer ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Müller, Kai-Uwe ; Steiner, Viktor
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35015
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008052738
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ