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freelancers (who can take breaks at their discretion) and regular workers (who work on a fixed schedule). …
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unemployed without any entitlement to unemployment benefits or any individual social protection like health care. These …, stricter eligibility rules to unemployment benefits introduced with the reforms. This re-familisation of social security stands …
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There is a body of literature that favors universal and unconditional public assurance policies over those that are targeted and means-tested. Two such proposalsthe basic income proposal and job guaranteesare discussed here. The paper evaluates the impact of each program on macroeconomic...
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This working paper provides a survey of the theoretical underpinnings for the various employment guarantee schemes, and discusses full employment policy experiences in the United States, Sweden, India, Argentina, and France. The theoretical and policy developments are delineated in a historical...
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infrastructure. While unemployment and enforced idleness" persist, existing time-use survey data reveal that people around the …
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Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...
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success in reducing unemployment. Despite outperforming its peers in terms of macroeconomic stability, Tunisia's official … unemployment rate still hovers around 15 percent, with two-thirds of first-time job seekers having university degrees. The paper …
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Unemployment was singled out by John Maynard Keynes as one of the principle faults of capitalism; the other is … depression, it is worthwhile to examine Hyman P. Minsky's comprehensive approach to resolving the unemployment problem. …
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We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …
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. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …
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