van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
of male job seekers in West Germany in the year 2000, we analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and sanctions on the … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. In our setting, with relatively severe sanctions …, around 9 percent of sickness absence during unemployment is induced by vacancy referrals. …