How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? Looking beyond unemployment exit

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1153-1178

  Arni, Patrick ^a,b,c   Lalive, Rafael ^a,b,d,e,f   Van Ours, Jan C ^a,d,e,g,h  

^a IZA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e CESIFO   (Germany)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 84888199966     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.2289     Document Type: Article

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