Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships.While there is ample evidence … confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions,it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact reduce …

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment … for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findingsare that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects... …

Dynamics of compliance, depending on audit probability, sanctions, and the time lagbetween audits, are investigated in … afterwards, especially if audits were frequent and sanctions high. …

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … cut for three months. We analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and on transitions out of the labor … job, but that these jobs go along with lower earnings due to first but not the second sanction. Moreover, first sanctions …