Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005) 6, pp. 1386-1417
This paper investigates the effectiveness of unemployment benefit sanctions in reducing unem-ployment 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 enforce-ment of...