%0 Report
        %A Lalive, Rafael
%A Ours, Jan C. van
%A Zweimüller, Josef
        %T The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
        %D 2002
        %8 2002 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 469
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp469
        %X This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment
duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a
warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements and the effect of the
actual enforcement of a benefit sanction. We find that both warning and enforcement have a
positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy
the shorter is the duration of unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as
evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy.
        %K benefit sanctions
%K unemployment duration
%K monitoring