Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work

Jan Boone and Jan van Ours

No 108, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also macro-spillover effects from the additional creation of vacancies, which originates from the increased effectiveness of labor supply. We advocate that for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate.

Keywords: financial incentives; Unemployment benefits; sanctions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2000-01
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Published - published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2006, 162 (2), 227-252

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