Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … of male job seekers in West Germany in the year 2000, we analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and sanctions on the … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. In our setting, with relatively severe sanctions …