The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence.

ABSTRACT: 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 of high-income countries. Critics argue that sanctions may be ineffective in bringing people back to employment or indeed harmful in a range of ways. Existing reviews largely assess the labour market impacts of sanctions but our understanding of the wider impacts is more limited. We report results from a scoping review of the international quantitative research evidence on both labour market and wider impacts of benefit sanctions. Following systematic search and screening, we extract data for 94 studies reporting on 253 outcome measures. We provide a narrative summary, paying attention to the ability of the studie

SUBMITTER: Pattaro S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7613403 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature