Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36350 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4580
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 effectiveness of an intensified use of sanctions. The results show that tightening sanction policy would be quite effective.
Subjects: 
Benefit sanctions
welfare recipients
IV
LATE
JEL: 
I38
J64
C31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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