Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt: proceedings and research potential

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Share of sanctions in sample and across subgroups

	(1)				(2)			(3)				(4)				(5)
	All				Female			Male				< 25 years				≥ 25 years
	Share	N			Share		N	Share			N	Share			N	Share			N
Minor noncompliance
At least one	82.17		46,892	84.50		16,749			80.93	30,143			86.01	9473			81.29	38,301
One	30.34		17,315	33.89		6718			28.45	10,597			30.09	3314			30.82	14,522
Two	16.56		9451	17.24		3417			16.20	6034			18.20	2005			16.44	7748
Three	10.08		5752	10.16		2014			10.04	3738			10.95	1206			9.90	4665
More than three	35.27		20,126	33.37		6614			36.28	13,512			37.72	4154			34.03	16,031
First severe infringement
At least one	39.95		22,799	32.81		6503			43.75	16,296			35.84	3947			40.22	18,952
One	34.90		19,919	29.37		5821			37.85	14,098			32.01	3526			35.18	16,575
Two	4.31		2458	2.94		583			5.03	1875			3.38	372			4.29	2020
Three	0.58		330	0.39		77			0.68	253			0.37	41			0.58	275
More than Three	0.74		422	0.50		99			0.87	323			0.44	49			0.76	357
Additional severe infringement
At least one	10.32		5890	6.82		1,352			12.18	4538			9.42	1037			10.36	4880
One	6.57		3750	4.59		910			7.62	2840			6.00	661			6.62	3120
Two	2.13		1213	1.40		277			2.51	936			1.83	202			2.17	1022
Three	0.85		484	0.45		89			1.06	395			0.80	88			0.82	385
More than three	1.62		927	0.83		165			2.05	762			1.58	174			1.57	738
Individuals	57,068			19,821					37,247				11,014				47,115

The table depicts the share of individuals experiencing a certain sanction event in the sample (cf. Column 1) and across subgroups (cf. Column 2 to 5). Restrictions for dataset 2 apply (see Appendix 2)
Source: IEB V14.00.00–190,927, data from the data warehouse (DWH) of the FEA January 2020. Own calculations