Fig. 1From: Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt: proceedings and research potentialSource: IEB V14.00.00–190,927, data from the data warehouse (DWH) of the FEA January 2020. Own calculationsTime passed between different steps in the sanction process. The figure depicts how many days pass between different steps in the sanction process for all observed sanctions (left panel) and for severe infringements and minor non-compliance separately (right panel). The x-Axis of the figures is limited to 0 < x ≤ 180 days. In addition, analysis is limited to sanctions with a duration of 1 to 180 days between sanction event and decision (this excludes 1743 sanctions). No limitation is set on time passed between decision to impose a sanction and start of the sanction period. However, the observation period only includes sanctions implemented between 2016 and 2018. Strong sanctions include severe infringements of any kind. See Table 8 for more details. Restrictions of dataset 2 apply (see Appendix 2).Back to article page