TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lalive, Rafael
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
AU  - Zweimüller, Josef
        TI  - The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
        PY  - 2002/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 469
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp469
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - benefit sanctions
KW  - unemployment duration
KW  - monitoring
        ER  -