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| Title: | | Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition: the German experience  |
| Authors: | | Müller, Kai-Uwe Steiner, Viktor |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3483 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | Benefit sanctions unemployment transitions German labor market reform ex-post evaluation propensity score matching hazard rate model unobserved heterogeneity |
| JEL: | | J64 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008052738 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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