Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions: an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?

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Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences are used as instrumental variables to estimate the effect of sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is an estimate of the effctiveness of an intensified use of sanctions. The results show that tightening sanction policy would be quite effective.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 09-072

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
• Subject: benefit sanctions ; welfare recipients ; LATE ; Sozialhilfeempfänger ; Sozialhilfe ; Rechtsdurchsetzung ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Arbeitsangebot ; Ökonomischer Anreiz ; Berufliche Integration ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Boockmann, Bernhard ; Thomsen, Stephan L. ; Walter, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28963
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET