Van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante threat of sanctions. We analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and …