Quantifying 'Conditionality': A New Database on Conditions and Sanctions for Unemployment Benefit Claimants

24 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2013

Date Written: September 5, 2013

Abstract

This paper describes our new dataset on conditionality requirements for unemployment benefit claimants. Even though the past three decades have witnessed extensive efforts in quantifying social rights, conditionality remains relatively unexamined, with only a handful of excellent though incomplete studies assembling comparative data on how states delimit and enforce the job search behavior of the unemployed. We build on these studies with the goal of collecting data for 22 countries between 1980 and 2011. In this paper we explain the relevance of the dataset for the study of welfare state change, discuss measurement issues, and present data for five countries: France, Germany, South Korea, Austria, and the United Kingdom.

Keywords: Sanctions, conditions, unemployment benefits

JEL Classification: J65, H53, I38

Suggested Citation

Knotz, Carlo and Nelson, Moira, Quantifying 'Conditionality': A New Database on Conditions and Sanctions for Unemployment Benefit Claimants (September 5, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2328253 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2328253

Carlo Knotz (Contact Author)

Lund University ( email )

Box 117
Lund, SC Skane S221 00
Sweden

Moira Nelson

Lund University ( email )

Box 117
Lund, SC Skane S221 00
Sweden

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