Institutional features of unemployment insurance and the working of the labour market

1996 ◽  
pp. 184-204 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Institutional Features

scholarly journals Does sanctioning disabled claimants of unemployment insurance increase labour market inactivity? An analysis of 346 British local authorities between 2009 and 2014

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Clear Relationship ◽  
Work Readiness ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Market Activity ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Labour Market Activity

Imposing financial penalties on claimants of unemployment insurance may incentivise labour market re-entry. However, sanctions may have differential effects depending on the work-readiness of the claimants. Here, I explore whether sanctioning disabled claimants is associated with greater labour market activity or inactivity among disabled people using data on 346 British local authorities between 2009 and 2014. When the number of sanctioned disabled claimants rises (as a proportion of all claimants) the proportion of economically inactive people who are also disabled becomes larger. There is not a clear relationship between sanctioning disabled claimants the proportion of employed people who are disabled.

Farewell flexicurity? Danish flexicurity and the crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bredgaard ◽  
Per Kongshøj Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Before the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, flexicurity topped the European labour market and social policy agenda. It was acclaimed for combining the flexibility of liberal labour markets with the security of social welfare states, thereby offering a viable formula for success in the new global economy. Nowhere was this better exemplified than in Denmark, with the Danish system repeatedly highlighted as a good example of flexicurity in action. In this article, we revisit the flexicurity concept, assessing how the Danish labour market came through the crisis. We argue that the economic crisis and especially political reforms of the unemployment insurance system have challenged the institutional complementarities of flexicurity, but that the Danish labour market is recovering and adapting to new challenges. The Danish case illustrates that institutional complementarities between flexibility and security are fragile and liable to disintegrate if the institutions providing flexicurity are not maintained and supported.

The puzzles of union density in Norway

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Nergaard ◽  
Torgeir Aarvaag Stokke
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Union Density ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
Insurance Funds ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Over Time

The level of union density in Norway is medium high, in contrast to the other Nordic countries where high density levels are supported by unemployment insurance funds. Developments in union density over time are stable in Norway, contrary to developments in most western European countries outside the Nordic region. This article traces the effects of unemployment insurance funds by comparing density levels in Norway with those in Finland and Sweden. In addition, the stability witnessed in union density in Norway over time is a particularly puzzling phenomenon, and the authors seek to explain it on the basis of specific institutional and labour market factors.

scholarly journals US AND UK LABOUR MARKETS BEFORE AND DURING THE COVID-19 CRASH

2020 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. R52-R69 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N.F. Bell ◽  
David G. Blanchflower
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
National Data ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Distributional Impact

We examine labour market performance in the US and the UK prior to the onset of the Covid-19 crash. We then track the changes that have occurred in the months and days from the beginning of March 2020 using what we call the Economics of Walking About (EWA) that shows a collapse twenty times faster and much deeper than the Great Recession. We examine unemployment insurance claims by state by day in the US as well as weekly national data. We track the distributional impact of the shock and show that already it is hitting the most vulnerable groups who are least able to work from home the hardest – the young, the least educated and minorities. We have no official labour market data for the UK past January but see evidence that job placements have fallen sharply. We report findings from an online poll fielded from 11–16 April 2020 showing that a third of workers in Canada and the US report that they have lost at least half of their income due to the Covid-19 crisis, compared with a quarter in the UK and 45 per cent in China. We estimate that the unemployment rate in the US is around 20 per cent in April. It is hard to know what it is in the UK given the paucity of data, but it has gone up a lot.

Why Don’t Firms Hire Young Workers During Recessions?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Forsythe
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
New Model ◽  
High Unemployment

Abstract Recessions are known to be particularly damaging to young workers’ employment outcomes. I find that during recessions the hiring rate falls faster for young workers than for more-experienced workers. I show this cannot be explained by the composition of jobs or workers’ labour supply decisions, and I conclude that firms preferentially hire experienced workers during periods of high unemployment. I develop a new model of cyclical upgrading that relaxes the classic assumptions of exogenous firm size and rigid wages. I show this model predicts larger log wage decreases during recessions for young workers than for experienced workers, a prediction that is supported by the data. I conclude that policy makers should consider extending unemployment insurance coverage during recessions to new labour market entrants.

Labour Market Policy and Unemployment Insurance

1992 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 519
Author(s):  
Alan Carruth ◽  
Anders Björklund ◽  
Robert Haveman ◽  
Robinson Hollister ◽  
Bertil Holmlund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy

Labour Market Policy and Unemployment Insurance

1994 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Goldin ◽  
Anders Bjorklund ◽  
Robert Haveman ◽  
Robinson Hollister ◽  
Bertil Holmlund
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy

scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET PROGRAMMES ON UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION

Ekonomika ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnė Laužadytė
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Duration Analysis ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
First Year ◽  
Duration Model ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Active Labour Market Programmes

This study estimates the effects of Active Labour Market Programmes on unemployment insurance (UI) benefit recipients in Denmark, depending on the time spent in unemployment before entry into the programme. I estimate two separate effects of the ALMPs in the duration model: a locking-in effect and a post-programme effect, and finally, the net effects of ALMPs on unemployment duration are calculated.The results in this study are in line with the findings of studies in other countries, i.e. I find that only one of ALMP types – Private Job training – reduces unemployment duration. Analysis leads to a conclusion in favour of activation of unemployed persons in their first year of unemployment; however, it does not support activation in the first 1–6 months of UI benefit spells.

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