Brief notes on Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain

1937 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
F. J. C. Honey
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Full Information ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
National Insurance ◽  
Original Scheme ◽  
The Way

It is impossible in these notes to attempt any comprehensive review of the system of compulsory Unemployment Insurance which has operated in this country since 1912. Moreover, the paper by Messrs Kyd & Maddex read before the Institute in January 1929 gives full information up to that date. But I want to start by outlining the original scheme, as I think the way in which it has been modified and extended may be found of interest.The system began with the National Insurance Act, 1911, Part II. Contributions commenced in July 1912 and benefit in January 1913. Only a few industries which were considered to carry a specially heavy risk of unemployment were included, and the numbers insured at the outset were about 2¼ millions. Contributions were 2¼d. per week each from employer and worker, and 1⅔d. from the Exchequer. Benefit was 7s. per week, with a limitation of one week's benefit for every five contributions paid, and a maximum of fifteen weeks' benefit in a year.

1.—The Competitors and the Result

1906 ◽  
Vol 10 (40) ◽  
pp. 50-51
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North Sea ◽  
English Channel ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Way

No fewer than seven nations tried to win the Gordon Bennett Cup in the race which started from the Tuileries Gardens, in Paris, on September 30th. But the wind was in an unfavourable direction for the accomplishment of a long distance record. To some, the English Channel barred the way, to some, the North Sea.The cup offered for the greatest distance covered has been accorded to the American aeronaut, Mr. Frank P. Lahm, who descended 15 miles north of Scarborough.It will be seen in another part of this Journal that in December next, Members of the Aëronautical Society of Great Britain will hear an account of the Gordon-Bennett race from Colonel J. E. Capper, who took part in the race, having accompanied Mr. Rolls in the “ Britannia.” In this account, therefore, it will suffice to merely tabulate the competitors and results.

Some Actuarial Aspects of Unemployment Insurance

1929 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-160
Author(s):  
J. G. Kyd ◽  
G. H. Maddex
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Poor Laws ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
National Insurance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

Judged by the amount of space devoted to the subject in the Journal of the Institute, Unemployment Insurance has received but little attention from actuaries in the past Public interest in the problem of relieving distress due to unemployment became pronounced in the early years of the present century and led to the appointment in 1904 of a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and, eventually, to the passing in 1911 of the first Unemployment Insurance Act. These important events found a somewhat pallid reflection in our proceedings in the form of reprints of extracts from Sir H. Llewellyn Smith's address on Insurance against Unemployment to the British Association in 1910 (J.I.A., vol. xliv, p. 511) and of Mr. Ackland's report on Part II of the National Insurance Bill (J.I.A., vol. xlv, p. 456). At a later date, when the scope of the national scheme was very greatly widened, the Government Actuary's report on the relevant measure—the Unemployment Insurance Bill 1919—was reprinted in the Journal (J.I.A., vol. lii, page 72).

Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain, 1911-48.

Economica ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 17 (67) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Alan T. Peacock ◽  
Frank Tillyard
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Unemployment Insurance

scholarly journals Using Event-history Analysis: Lessons from Fifteen Years of Practice

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Céline Le Bourdais ◽  
Jean Renaud
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Event History ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Longitudinal Surveys ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
The Way

Innovative statistical methods and new longitudinal surveys paved the way to the widespread use of event-history analysis in social science during the last two decades. This paper does not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of these innovative methods. More modestly, it aims at identifying and describing the problems encountered by two privileged users. Two types of problems are discussed here. The first arises from the design of the surveys, or the way data are collected, and the difficulty to test specific hypotheses with the existing databases; this is the kind of problem that Le Bourdais has faced in analysing family dynamics. The second has to do with the limitations of the survival regression models when the longitudinal phenomena studied can no longer properly be thought of as a small number of unique events; this is the type of problem encountered by Renaud in his ten-year Quebec panel survey of new immigrants.

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