Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Van Ours, Jan C.

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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Jan Boone

Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research (CentER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); TILEC

Tilburg University - Department of Economics; University of Melbourne - Department of Economics

January 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1000

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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.

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Keywords: experiments, unemployment benefits, sanctions, job search

JEL Classification: C91, J64, J65

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Date posted: February 10, 2004

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Boone, Jan, Sadrieh, Abdolkarim and Van Ours, Jan C., Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior (January 2004). IZA Discussion Paper No. 1000. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=500905

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Jan Boone Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research (CentER) ( email ) P.O. Box 90153 Tilburg, 5000 LE Netherlands +31 13 466 2399 (Phone) +31 13 466 3042 (Fax)
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 77 Bastwick Street London, EC1V 3PZ United Kingdom
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) P.O. Box 7240 Bonn, D-53072 Germany
TILEC ( email ) Warandelaan 2 Tilburg, 5000 LE Netherlands
Abdolkarim Sadrieh University of Magdeburg ( email ) Faculty of Economics and Management Postbox 4120 39016 Magdeburg Germany HOME PAGE: http://www.ww.uni-magdeburg.de
Jan C. Van Ours (Contact Author) Tilburg University - Department of Economics ( email ) P.O. Box 90153 Tilburg, 5000 LE Netherlands +31 13 466 2880 (Phone) +31 13 466 3042 (Fax)
University of Melbourne - Department of Economics ( email ) Melbourne Australia

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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Jan Boone

Abdolkarim Sadrieh

Jan C. Van Ours

Date posted: February 10, 2004

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Jan Boone

Abdolkarim Sadrieh

Jan C. Van Ours (Contact Author)