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 … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …

-state unemployment rate. We draw on policy changes in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration from 30 to 52 weeks for individuals … impact of benefit duration on labor market flows and find that (i) the policy changes lead to an increase in the steady …-state unemployment rate between 20% and 50%; (ii) surprisingly, most of the increase is due to an increase in the inflow into …