This article analyzes the effects of sanctions for unemployed recipients of the social
assistance benefit in Germany. I conduct an analysis using administrative data from 2012 to …

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of sanction effects on post-welfare
employment quality in Europe using the outcome variables daily wage, yearly income, and …

This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-
post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-) groups of …

In Germany, as in many other European countries, vast changes in the welfare regime–
towards workfare–have taken place. As a central activating element of workfare, sanctions …

During the last two decades many countries have reformed their welfare systems with the
aim of shifting labor market policies from passive benefit receipt towards increased job …

In Germany, imposition of benefit cuts for non-compliant welfare recipients depends on the
policy of the local welfare agencies resulting in considerable regional variation, expressed …

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient
does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction …

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 …

In recent decades, the use of conditionality backed by benefit sanctions for those claiming
unemployment and related benefits has become widespread in the social security systems …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment
transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of …