This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that … ; Beschäftigung ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Schweiz … unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even in favourable economic conditions, is on an increasing trend. This …