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2. Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt: proceedings and research potential.
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Schmidtke, Julia
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UNEMPLOYMENT insurance ,EMPLOYMENT policy - Abstract
Most studies on benefit sanctions within the German welfare system rely on established datasets about welfare receipt. This paper analyzes how using a dataset from the operational system of the German Federal Employment Agency for processing welfare claims can contribute to further research on benefit sanctions. For this purpose, I use a random sample of welfare recipients with at least one sanction between 2016 and 2018. First, this allows the detailed analysis of time lags between different steps in the sanction process. Second, linking this dataset with established datasets allows the identification of imposed sanctions for which sanction periods could not be (fully) implemented. This is largely explained by individuals leaving the welfare system between sanction events and sanction periods, e.g., by taking up employment. Third, the paper shows differences in benefit cuts across subgroups. This opens up paths for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? : looking beyond unemployment exit
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Arni, Patrick, Lalive, Rafael, Van Ours, Jan, Arni, Patrick, Lalive, Rafael, and Van Ours, Jan
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This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of benefit sanctions on post-unemployment outcomes such as post-unemployment employment stability and earnings. We use rich register data which allow us to distinguish between a warning that a benefit reduction may take place in the near future and the actual withdrawal of unemployment benefits. Adopting a multivariate mixed proportional hazard approach to address selectivity, we find that warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings.
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- 2024
4. 'A Job, Any Job' : The UK Benefits System and Employment Services in an Age of Austerity
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Nicholas Taylor
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Labour economics ,Labour market flexibility ,Welfare reform ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Coalition government ,050602 political science & public administration ,030212 general & internal medicine ,job creation ,benefit sanction ,biology ,welfare-to-work ,business.industry ,employment service ,05 social sciences ,Public sector ,Public employment service ,General Medicine ,austerity ,0506 political science ,Austerity ,welfare conditionality ,Toll ,Financial crisis ,biology.protein ,business - Abstract
This paper looks at the recent past of the benefits system and employment services in the UK and how they have operated through more than five years of austerity. The UK presents an interesting case, as the unemployment rate following the financial crisis has recovered faster than expected. The major reforms of welfare-to-work programmes and cuts to the public sector, together with continued labour market flexibility, have been identified as the source of this triumph. Yet behind this apparent success story is another picture. Many public employment service programmes in the UK were contracted out to private employment agencies following the Coalition Government’s 2011 reforms. A much more restrictive and punitive benefits system and an emphasis on pushing people into work, whatever its quality or stability, has driven the rise of precarious and part-time employment.\ud \ud It is an important time to take stock of the effects of continued austerity and public sector job cuts, as well as the extreme shift to a deterrent model of benefit provision. Using the UK context, we might question what makes for a ‘successful’ story on job creation and what kind of social toll there is to advocating “a job, any job” through the benefits and employment services systems. In particular, I suggest that by paying attention to the experience of those who use the benefits and employment services systems, we might learn about the effects of austerity and welfare reform on public services in a more meaningful way.
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- 2017
5. The effect of unemployment benefit II sanctions on reservation wages
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Schneider, Julia and Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB)
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Arbeitslosengeld II ,Economics ,Lohn ,Arbeitsuche ,J68 ,receipt of benefits ,Labor Market Policy ,Federal Republic of Germany ,employment behavior ,sanction ,empirisch-quantitativ ,ddc:330 ,C13 ,Labor Market Research ,reservation wages ,quantitative empirical ,benefit sanction ,Arbeitsmarktforschung ,empirisch ,Wirtschaft ,unemployment insurance ,Leistungsbezug ,Arbeitsmarktpolitik ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,job search ,income ,Sanktion ,Auswirkung ,impact ,Erwerbsverhalten ,wage ,Einkommen ,J64 ,empirical ,expectation ,Erwartung - Abstract
"In 2005, benefit sanctions in Germany were tightened with the introduction of the new means-tested unemployment benefit II (UB II), codified in Social Code (SC) II. This study analyzes the effect of benefit sanctions on the reservation wage of sanctioned unemployment benefit II recipients. The behavioral effect of a benefit sanction is an empirically open question. According to job search theory, benefit sanctions directly reduce reservation wages. To explore this hypothesis, propensity score matching is adopted. The dataset used is a unique survey of UB II recipients in the first year of SC II. For the identification of the effect, the study relies on the rich individual data and the rather unsystematic sanctioning process in the starting months after the introduction of the SC II. The timing of the sanction is explicitly considered by estimating the effects for the first four quarters of UB II receipt in 2005. The main result is that there was no significant effect of sanctions on the reservation wages of sanctioned unemployment benefit II recipients. A side result is that sanctioned UB II recipients were not more likely to be employed at the time of their interview either. Both results are robust to various matching estimators, estimation specifications and to the timing of the UB II sanction." (author's abstract) Im Jahr 2000 wurden mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II) die Sanktionsmöglichkeiten gegenüber ALG II-Empfängern verschärft. Der Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkung einer solchen ALG II-Sanktion auf den Reservationslohn sanktionierter ALG II-Empfänger. Empirisch sind die Verhaltensauswirkungen infolge von Sanktionen bislang nicht zufriedenstellend geklärt; Auswirkungen auf den Reservationslohn sind noch vollkommen unerforscht. Suchtheoretisch führen Sanktionen direkt zu einem Sinken der Reservationslöhne. Zur Überprüfung dieser Hypothese wird der Effekt von ALG II-Sanktionen auf den Reservationslohn mittels Propensity Score Matching geschätzt. Die verwendete Datengrundlage ist ein Querschnittsdatensatz von ALG II-Empfängern im ersten Jahr nach der Einführung von ALG II. Die Fülle der im Datensatz verfügbaren Variablen und der in der Einführungsphase von ALG II noch unsystematische Sanktionsprozess ermöglichen die Identifizierung des Sanktionseffektes. Hierbei wird das Timing der Sanktion explitzit berücksichtigt. Als wichtigstes Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass sich keine signifikanten Auswirkungen der Sanktionen auf den Reservationslohn sanktionierter arbeitsloser Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfänger nachweisen lassen. Ein weiteres interessantes Ergebnis ist, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Beschäftigung zum Zeitpunkt des Interviews für sanktionierte Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfänger nicht höher war. Beide Ergebnisse sind robust gegenüber verschiedenen Spezifikationen des Matching-Schätzers und gegenüber dem Timing der Sanktionen. (IAB)
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- 2008
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