Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20235 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1000
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effect that unemployed want to avoid getting a benefit sanction imposed (the ex ante effect). We find that both effects matter. Moreover, the ex ante effect turns out to be substantial and bigger than the ex post effect. Benefit sanctions stimulate the outflow from unemployment.
Subjects: 
experiments
unemployment benefits
sanctions
job search
JEL: 
C91
J65
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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