With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … Germany. We estimate separate models for people living alone and people living with their family, as sanctioned welfare …

-discontinuity estimation in the sharp age-discontinuity design of the NDYP job search assistance program for young unemployed in the UK. Next … ; regression discontinuity ; selection ; job search assistance ; subsidized work ; youth unemployment …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search … human capital losses. Monitoring offer rejections is less effective than monitoring search effort. -- Unemployment …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search … capital losses. Monitoring offer rejections is less effective than monitoring search effort. -- Unemployment ; duration …

We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …