The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lalive, R; Zweimüller, J; van Ours, JC
• 署名单位: University of Zurich; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1162/154247605775012879
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1386-1417
• 关键词: transition rate; IMPACT

摘要

This paper investigates the effectiveness of unemployment benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Swiss data on benefit sanctions allow us to separate the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements from the effect of the actual enforcement of a benefit sanction. Moreover, public employment services are given substantial leeway in setting the monitoring intensity. Results indicate that both warning and enforcement have a positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment, and that increasing the monitoring intensity reduces the duration of unemployment of the nonsanctioned.