The purpose of this paper is to simultaneously investigate whether the active labour market programmes (ALMPs) and the imposition of benefit sanctions help unemployed insured workers in Denmark to find a job sooner than those who do not get any activation. Earlier studies have modelled ALMPs and benefit sanctions separately, which may have resulted in over- or underestimation of the true effect. As part of our empirical methodology, we used a multivariate mixed proportional hazard model and optimally selected the number of support points for the specification of unobserved heterogeneity distribution in our sample. Our results revealed that the impositions of both benefit sanctions and employment subsidies in the private sector have a positive impact on reducing unemployment duration. Some policy implications are drawn.

中文翻译：

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积极的劳动力市场计划和福利制裁对减少失业持续时间的影响

本文的目的是同时调查积极劳动力市场计划 (ALMP) 和实施福利制裁是否有助于丹麦失业的投保工人比没有任何激活的工人更快地找到工作。早期的研究分别对 ALMP 和福利制裁进行建模，这可能导致对真实效果的高估或低估。作为我们经验方法的一部分，我们使用了多变量混合比例风险模型，并优化了样本中未观察到的异质性分布规范的支持点数。我们的结果显示，对私营部门实施福利制裁和就业补贴对减少失业持续时间具有积极影响。得出了一些政策含义。