This paper finds that unemployment insurance sanctions substantially raise individual transition rates from … unemployment to employment. Sanctions are punitive benefits reductions that are supposed to make recipients comply with certain … minimum requirements concerning search behavior. We provide a theoretical analysis and we use a unique administrative data set …

cut for three months. We analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and on transitions out of the labor … recipients living with other household members can partly rely on their support and might react less by increasing search …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search … theoretical job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection versus monitoring of job search effort. The observation window … human capital losses. Monitoring offer rejections is less effective than monitoring search effort. …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

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 …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. We analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …

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 …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search … job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection vis-a-vis monitoring of job search effort. The observation window … capital losses. Monitoring offer rejections is less effective than monitoring search effort. …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

sanctions on job search outcomes for young welfare recipients in Germany. The German benefit system is characterized by harsh … not comply with their job search requirements. We jointly analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and …