TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Boone, Jan
AU  - Sadrieh, Abdolkarim
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
        TI  - Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior
        PY  - 2004/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1000
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1000
        AB  - 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 effect that unemployed want to avoid 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. Benefit sanctions
stimulate the outflow from unemployment.
        KW  - experiments
KW  - job search
KW  - sanctions
KW  - unemployment benefits
        ER  -