The effects of unemployment benefit levels on the duration of unemployment

1992 ◽  
pp. 70-87
Author(s):  
W. Groot ◽  
G. Jehoel-Gijsbers
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment

scholarly journals Crónica de jurisprudencial laboral internacional julio / diciembre 2017 = Chronicle of international labor jurisprudence july / december 2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 781
Author(s):  
Ángel Arias Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Labor ◽  
State Employment ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment ◽  
The Government ◽  
Para Determinar

 Resumen: En el período de referencia no hay nuevas quejas “abiertas” o “en seguimiento” ante el Comité de Libertad Sindical. Tampoco el informe núm. 383 (331ª reunión, Ginebra, 26 de octubre – 9 de noviembre de 2017) contiene referencias al Reino de España.El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión ha dictado tres resoluciones que afectan a España directamente: Elda Otero Ramos c. Servicio Galego de Saúde sobre el mecanismo técnico de acreditación de la cir­cunstancia de que la ejecución de las funciones inherentes al puesto de trabajo presenta un riesgo para la lactancia natural; María Begoña Espadas Recio c. Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal sobre el cálculo de la base para determinar la duración de la prestación por desempleo para los trabajadores a tiempo parcial; y Margarita Isabel Vega González c. Consejería de Hacienda y Sector Público del Gobierno del Principado de Asturias relativo a la negativa al reconocimiento de la situación de servicios especiales.En el ámbito del TEDH se han dictado dos resoluciones en relación con España: N.D. y N.T. c. España en relación con el mecanismo de expulsión de inmigrantes extranjeros de manera colectiva; y Mercedes Jiménez Ruiz c. España sobre reconocimiento de pensión de viudedad tras reconciliación después de la separación judicial.Palabras clave: riesgo durante la lactancia natural, forma de cálculo de la base de la prestación de desempleo para los trabajadores a tiempo parcial, consecuencias del no reconocimiento de la situación de servicios especiales, expulsión de inmigrantes de forma colectiva, pensión de viudedad.Abstract: IIn the reference period, there are no new “open” or “pending” complaints before the Committee on Freedom of Association. Neither the report no. 383 (331st meeting, Geneva, October 26 - November 9, 2017) contains references to the Kingdom of Spain.The Court of Justice of the Union has issued three resolutions that directly affect Spain: Elda Otero Ramos c. Galego de Saúde Service on the technical mechanism of accreditation of the circumstance that the execution of the functions inherent in the workplace presents a risk for breastfeeding; María Begoña Espacios Recio c. Public State Employment Service on the calculation of the basis for determining the duration of unemployment benefit for part-time workers; and Margarita Isabel Vega González c. Minis­try of Finance and Public Sector of the Government of the Principality of Asturias regarding the refusal to recognize the situation of special services.In the field of the ECHR, two resolutions have been issued in relation to Spain: N.D. and N.T. c. Spain in relation to the mechanism of expulsion of foreign immigrants collectively; and Mercedes Jimé­nez Ruiz c. Spain on recognition of widow’s pension after reconciliation after judicial separation.Keywords: risk during breastfeeding,form of calculation of the basis of unemployment benefit for part-time workers, consequences of non-recognition of the situation of special services,expulsion of immigrants collectively,widow’s pension.

scholarly journals Disinflation and Equilbrium Participation Rates Across the OECD

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Chapple
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Natural Rate ◽  
Equilibrium Unemployment ◽  
Interactive Relationship ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment ◽  
Supply Side Factors

Larry Ball's recent work shows that OECD countries with large and long lasting disinflations during the 1980s had the largest rises in their equilibrium unemployment rates. While supply side factors did not initiate the rises in equilibrium unemployment, Ball finds evidence for an interactive relationship between disinflation and open ended unemployment duration. He concludes that the results support the theory that disinflation has a permanent impact on unemployment (hysteresis) over the theory that there is a unique equilibrium rate of unemployment that is invariant to disinflation (the natural rate hypothesis). A hysteresis theory also implies, in addition to trend unemployment 1ates, that trend labour force participation should be changed by disinflation. The study examines changes in trend participation across twenty OECD countries between 1980 and 1990 and finds confirmation for the prediction of the hysteresis hypothesis. Countries with high disinflation have the smallest rises in trend labour force participation. Some evidence was found in support of an interactive relationship between disinflation and benefit duration. For a given disinflation, the greater the duration of unemployment benefit payments, the smaller the rise in trend labour force participation. The results of both this study and that of Ball raise important issues regarding the current operating structures of monetary policy in New Zealand, based as these are on the natural rate hypothesis.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE: SHOULD BENEFIT ENTITLEMENT DURATION REACT TO THE CYCLE?

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Moyen ◽  
Nikolai Stähler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Consumption Smoothing ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Optimal Duration ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment ◽  
The Business Cycle

The aim of this paper is to study the optimal duration of unemployment benefit entitlement across the business cycle. We analyze whether the entitlement duration should be prolonged in bad and shortened in good times. Because of consumption smoothing, such a countercyclical policy can be welfare-enhancing as long as it does not affect labor market adjustment too severely and/or as long as it can even help to reduce inefficiencies there. If, however, the labor market is already quite inflexible, procyclical behavior may be preferable. In a calibrated dynamic business cycle framework, we find that countercyclical benefit entitlement duration may be preferable in the United States but not in Europe.

The Unemployment Benefit Boost: Initial Trends in Spending and Saving When the $600 Supplement Ended

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Farrell ◽  
Peter Ganong ◽  
Fiona Greig ◽  
Max Liebeskind ◽  
Pascal Noel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Benefit

scholarly journals New administrative data on welfare dynamics in Germany: the Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG)

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Bruckmeier ◽  
Sandra Dummert ◽  
Philipp Grunau ◽  
Katrin Hohmeyer ◽  
Torsten Lietzmann
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Welfare Benefit ◽  
Welfare Receipt ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Integrated Employment ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Extensive Information ◽  
Household Members

Abstract The Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) is a new administrative longitudinal microdata set representative of recipients of Germany’s main welfare programme, the Unemployment Benefit II (UB II, Arbeitslosengeld II). The data set contains detailed longitudinal information on welfare receipt and labour market activities, and hence enables researchers to analyse the dynamics of benefit receipt, income and employment. A distinct feature of the SIG is that it provides information not only for individual benefit recipients but also for family members, including children and partners. This is possible because eligibility for UB II benefits depends on the household structure, and it is means-tested on household income. In addition to socio-demographic and regional information, the SIG contains extensive information on the employment biographies of benefit recipients and their household members from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). This allows researchers to examine the interaction between labour market participation and benefit receipt. The SIG is available to researchers at the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the IAB.

scholarly journals Distributive Consequences of Risk Privatization: The Case of the Swedish Unemployment Insurance System

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-235
Author(s):  
Jayeon Lindellee
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
The Public ◽  
Insurance Benefit ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
Unemployment Insurance Benefit ◽  
Income Insurance ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
Retail Workers

Abstract The public unemployment insurance program in Sweden has retrenched in terms of its benefit generosity in the last three decades. As a response to this trend, in which an ever-smaller proportion of the previous income of unemployed persons is compensated by public unemployment insurance benefit, complementary income insurance schemes provided by unions have expanded rapidly in the last 15 years, currently covering one half of the working population. What does this change mean for people who need income protection upon unemployment and are more likely to find themselves unemployed or underemployed? By analyzing survey-based benefit recipiency data among retail workers who were unemployed in 2014, this article explores the outcomes of the multi-pillarized unemployment benefit provision system in Sweden. While public unemployment insurance benefit does not fully compensate for the income loss for the majority of retail workers, the promise of a complementary income insurance scheme seems to be illusory for many individuals as they repeatedly oscillate between precarious work and benefits, accompanied by the burden of navigating a complex system.

Partisanship, continuity, and change: Politics in Finnish unemployment benefit reforms 1985–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Sampo Varjonen ◽  
Olli Kangas ◽  
Mikko Niemelä
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Continuity And Change

scholarly journals Worlds of welfare collide

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Gráinne McKeever ◽  
Mark Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Conservative System ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Asymmetric Shocks ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Operational Issues ◽  
The Eu

The post-2007 financial crisis has brought renewed interest in a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme (EUBS) as a manifestation of solidarity between citizens of different Member States and an economic stabiliser in the event of future asymmetric shocks. The EU-wide benefit would operate in tandem with existing national unemployment benefits. This creates challenges of compatibility given the diversity of approaches to social security within the Union, based on at least four philosophies of welfare: liberal, conservative, social democratic and southern European. This article examines potential legal, operational and political difficulties associated with marrying a EUBS that is at heart a conservative system of social insurance to the UK’s liberal welfare state. Few legal obstacles exist and although the addition of a new, earnings-related benefit to an already complex mix of social protection would raise significant operational issues, these need not be insurmountable. However, fundamental ideological differences would have rendered the EUBS as proposed politically ill-matched with the UK even absent the June 2016 vote to leave the EU. A contributory income maintenance benefit is a poor fit with a residual, largely means-tested national system whose role is limited to offering protection against severe poverty while maintaining work incentives and minimising costs.

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