Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44223 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5055
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they found a job that lasted at least six months. However, they could also be punished for noncompliance with eligibility requirements and face a sanction, i.e. a temporary reducing of their benefits. In this paper we investigate how benefit sanctions and reemployment bonuses affect job finding rates of welfare recipients. We find that benefit sanctions were effective in bringing unemployed from welfare to work more quickly while reemployment bonuses were not.
Subjects: 
welfare to work
financial incentives
timing-of-events
dynamic selection
JEL: 
J64
C21
C41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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