Unemployed: are sanctions efficient?

Markus Pannenberg 09 August 2007

Empirically, the German unemployed – unlike others in Europe – do not respond to temporary sanctions on their unemployment benefits. Recent research suggests that the effectiveness of such sanction depends on attitudes towards risk. This may explain why benefit sanctions work in some countries but not in others.

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You can find the article in English and French on the site of Vox’s Consortium partner www.telos-eu.com:
http://www.telos-eu.com/en/article/unemployed_are_sanctions_efficient

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Topics:  Labour markets

Tags:  Germany, unemployment sanctions

Markus Pannenberg

Professor of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld and Research Professor at DIW Berlin

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