%0 Report
        %A Müller, Kai-Uwe
%A Steiner, Viktor
        %T Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3483
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3483
        %X We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard rate model which accounts for the dynamic nature of the treatment. We find positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can thus be an effective activation tool if they take place not too late in an individual’s unemployment spell.
        %K benefit sanctions
%K unemployment transitions
%K German labor market reform
%K ex-post evaluation
%K propensity score matching
%K hazard rate model
%K unobserved heterogeneity