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The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …
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, analyzes how these differences affect the working of the standard, OECD-style unemployment insurance (UI) program, and derives … a desirable design of unemployment benefit program in developing countries. It argues that these countries – faced by …, and to minimize administration cots, such adaptations include: (i) relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance …
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Im Jahr 2005 wurde im Zuge der Zusammenlegung von Arbeitslosen- und Sozialhilfe auch der so genannte 'Aussteuerungsbetrag' eingeführt, der aus Sozialbeiträgen zur Arbeitslosenversicherung finanziert wurde: Die Bundesregierung erhob von 2005 bis 2007 von der Bundesagentur für Arbeit einen...
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Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …
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Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …
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Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly, effectively, and equitably. Because displaced workers have been found to suffer substantial earnings losses when they become reemployed, a wage insurance program provides a temporary...
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The trend towards labor market flexibility in Europe has typically involved introducing legislation that makes it easier for firms to issue temporary contracts with low firing costs, while not changing the level of protection that is in place for permanent jobs. This has created a strong...
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Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …
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In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look …
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and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …
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