Do sanctions work ? ∗
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Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of bene t reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the e ects of UI sanctions in Germany is missing. Using administrative data we investigate the e ects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for a period before the Hartz reforms. By applying a matching approach that takes timing of events into account, we identify the ex post e ect of UI sanctions. While our rst results indicate positive e ects on the employment probability for young UI recipients, the results for the older subgroups are ambiguous.
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