Experiments on unemployment benefit sanctions and job search behavior

Jan Boone, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Jan C. van Ours

European Economic Review, 2009, vol. 53, issue 8, 937-951

Abstract: This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the threat of getting a benefit sanction imposed (the ex ante effect). We find that both effects matter. Moreover, the ex ante effect turns out to be substantial and bigger than the ex post effect. Benefits sanctions stimulate the outflow from unemployment.

Keywords: Experiments; Unemployment; benefits; Sanctions; Job; search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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