A European Unemployment Benefit Scheme

Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783867936019

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A European Unemployment Benefit Scheme by Bertelsmann Stiftung Pdf

The recent euro crisis and the dramatic increase of unemployment in some euro countries have triggered a renewed interest in a fiscal capacity for the European Union to stabilize the economy of its member states. One of the proposed instruments is a common European unemployment insurance. In this book Sebastian Dullien from the HTW Berlin provides and evaluates a blueprint for such a scheme. Building on lessons from the unemployment insurance in the United States of America, he outlines how a European unemployment benefit scheme could be constructed to provide significant stabilization to national business cycles, yet without strongly extending social protection in Europe. Macroeconomic stabilization effects and payment flows between countries are simulated and options, potential pitfalls and existing concerns discussed.

Author : Mr.Dennis J. Snower
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451848649

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Unemployment Benefits Versus Conditional Negative Income Taxes by Mr.Dennis J. Snower Pdf

The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the salient features of many European unemployment benefit systems in this light. Second, it presents a simple theoretical model that focuses on the relative wage-employment effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes. Finally, it provides some empirical groundwork for assessing this relative effect

Author : Florence Lefresne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Unemployment insurance
ISBN : 2874521612

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Unemployment Benefit Systems in Europe and North America by Florence Lefresne Pdf

Author : Paul de Beer,Trudie Schils
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849803274

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The Labour Market Triangle by Paul de Beer,Trudie Schils Pdf

This fascinating book presents an in-depth study of the particular combination of unemployment insurance, employment protection and active labour market policies prevalent in seven European countries. Currently, European governments are being challenged to find an optimal social policy strategy that fosters 'flexicurity , whereby a flexible, well-functioning labour market is achieved, while protection for workers is maintained. The contributors explore the formal laws and regulations, as well as the administration and implementation of social policy, paying special attention to the role of the social partners. A detailed country comparison shows that the combination of social policy instruments is important to labour market performance, but that multiple optimal mixes already appear to exist. The Labour Market Triangle will prove invaluable to academics in the field of policy research, including economists, sociologists and political scientists. Policy advisers and practitioners in the field of social policy, as well as representatives of trade unions, employers associations and political parties will find this multidisciplinary book of great interest.

Author : Valerie Symes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134815395

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Unemployment in Europe by Valerie Symes Pdf

Unemployment is the most serious economic and social problem in Europe today. Although the extent varies from region to region, it is generally most extreme in large cities. This volume asks why European unemployment is so high and examines the policies adopted at local, national and European level to tackle the problems. It also includes five case

Author : Frank Vandenbroucke,Chris Luigjes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Unemployment insurance
ISBN : 9461385218

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Institutional Moral Hazard in the Multi-tiered Regulation of Unemployment and Social Assistance Benefits and Activation by Frank Vandenbroucke,Chris Luigjes Pdf

This paper studies eight countries in which the regulation of unemployment benefits and related benefits and the concomitant activation of unemployed individuals has a multitiered architecture. It assesses their experiences and tries to understand possible problems of 'institutional moral hazard' that may emerge in the context of a hypothetical European Unemployment Benefit Scheme.

Author : Jochen Clasen,Daniel Clegg
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191664601

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Regulating the Risk of Unemployment by Jochen Clasen,Daniel Clegg Pdf

Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns, as well as plentiful employment opportunities even for those with low skills. Over the past two to three decades they have faced the challenge of an accelerating shift to a primarily service-based economy, accompanied by demands for greater flexibility in wages and terms and conditions in low-skill segments of the labour market as well as pressures to maximise labour force participation given the more limited potential for productivity-led growth. The book develops an original framework for analysing adaptive reform in unemployment protection along three discrete dimensions of institutional change, which are termed benefit homogenization, risk re-categorization, and activation. This framework is then used to structure analysis of twenty years of unemployment protection reform in twelve European countries. In addition to mapping reforms along these dimensions, the country studies analyse the political and institutional factors that have shaped national patterns of adaptation. Complementary comparative analyses explore the effects of benefit reforms on the operation of the labour market, assess evolving patterns of working-age benefit dependency, and examine the changing role of active labour market policies in the regulation of the risk of unemployment.

Author : Claudia Liebenberg
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783640755615

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The social security system of Germany and Sweden in the area of unemployment by Claudia Liebenberg Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, Berlin School of Economics and Law, course: Public Management and Governance in the EU, language: English, abstract: Why does a comparison of different social security systems with in the European Union(EU) make sense? Social security systems have to change because the underlying conditions are changing: globalisation, technological innovation,the disappearance of borders in Europe and demographic development are challenges the social systems must respond to. Social systems have to adapt. But how and in what direction should they evolve: public administration or private insurance; financed through taxes or through voluntary contributions; large amount of benefit in order to ensure social peace and to streng then the consumer or low benefit to save money and to encourage selfactivity? Inorder to answer these and other questions it may be rewarding to examine the different social systems and to learn from the most successful ones.

Author : Christian Kitzmueller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656878452

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A Euro Area wide Unemployment Insurance to Improve Macroeconomic Stability by Christian Kitzmueller Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1, Donau-Universität Krems (Department for Management and Economics), course: International Financial Environment, language: English, abstract: The member states of the euro area have delegated the framing of monetary policy to a European Central Bank, while fiscal policy remains in responsibility of the national governments. In a monetary union, counter-cyclical fiscal policy can deliver only limited help to minimize the loss of monetary policy for adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks. As fiscal capacity at EMU level could transfer a significant part of the cyclical aspects of fiscal policy to the su¬pranational level and help the euro area members to focus their fiscal policy on structural balances. A variety of such risk-sharing mechanisms have been suggested in the academic literature. This Master’s Thesis evaluates the concept of euro area wide unemployment insurance, in comparison with cyclical transfers between the Eurozone members based on their business cycle position. The European unemployment insurance scheme surpasses other concepts with regards to the criteria distributional neutrality and transparency, both of which are essential in order to gain support of European policymakers and voters.

Author : Karolien Lenaerts,Félix Paquier,Suzanne Simonetta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN : 9461386192

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Unemployment Insurance in America: a Model for Europe? by Karolien Lenaerts,Félix Paquier,Suzanne Simonetta Pdf

After the crisis, the longstanding debate on a European unemployment benefits scheme (EUBS) was revived as part of a much larger debate on the need for a supranational automatic stabilization function for Europe. The American unemployment insurance (UI) system, given its two-tier structure, has often been regarded as a model for a potential EUBS. Previous research has examined the lessons to be learned from the US UI. This paper builds on this literature but goes one step further as it carefully assesses whether the lessons from the US system could actually be implemented in a European context. Indeed, while there are important parallels between the US and the EU in some areas, significant differences in others may complicate implementation or even render it impossible. In this paper, the aim, therefore, is to identify the aspects of the US system to draw inspiration from--in light of the EU's institutional and political realities--and explain how they inform a potential EUBS. This exercise concentrates on the design and implementation of a potential EUBS. The paper highlights that a two-tier system helps to better attain the goals of unemployment insurance, as demonstrated by the American experience. It also shows the advantages of being pragmatic and taking an incentives-based approach. Other issues, such as solidarity and redistribution, seem more difficulty to tackle in Europe than in the American context and would require further examination. Finally, discretionary measures should be considered with caution.

Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783867936002

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A European Unemployment Benefit Scheme by Bertelsmann Stiftung Pdf

The recent euro crisis and the dramatic increase of unemployment in some euro countries have triggered a renewed interest in a fiscal capacity for the European Union to stabilize the economy of its member states. One of the proposed instruments is a common European unemployment insurance. In this book Sebastian Dullien from the HTW Berlin provides and evaluates a blueprint for such a scheme. Building on lessons from the unemployment insurance in the United States of America, he outlines how a European unemployment benefit scheme could be constructed to provide significant stabilization to national business cycles, yet without strongly extending social protection in Europe. Macroeconomic stabilization effects and payment flows between countries are simulated and options, potential pitfalls and existing concerns discussed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Full employment policies
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002125734

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Unemployment Protection Schemes and Employment Policies by Anonim Pdf

ISSA pub. Conference report and comparison of unemployment benefit schemes and employment policies to combat unemployment in Western Europe and Yugoslavia - examines financial aspects, provision of labour market information, employment creation through Job Sharing, reduced hours of work and youth vocational training, payment of wages in case of bankruptcy, etc. References. Conference held in Nuernberg 1980 Apr 15 to 18.

Author : Claudia Liebenberg
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Social security
ISBN : 9783640755714

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The Social Security System of Germany and Sweden in the Area of Unemployment by Claudia Liebenberg Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, Berlin School of Economics and Law, course: Public Management and Governance in the EU, language: English, abstract: Why does a comparison of different social security systems with in the European Union(EU) make sense? Social security systems have to change because the underlying conditions are changing: globalisation, technological innovation, the disappearance of borders in Europe and demographic development are challenges the social systems must respond to. Social systems have to adapt. But how and in what direction should they evolve: public administration or private insurance; financed through taxes or through voluntary contributions; large amount of benefit in order to ensure social peace and to streng then the consumer or low benefit to save money and to encourage selfactivity? Inorder to answer these and other questions it may be rewarding to examine the different social systems and to learn from the most successful ones.

Author : Duncan Gallie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191533952

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Resisting Marginalization by Duncan Gallie Pdf

This book breaks new ground by bringing together recent research into the determinants of marginalization risks for the unemployed and research into new social policies for combating marginalization. It examines the major controversies about how far entrapment in unemployment is due to resource constraints, motivational problems, or skill deficiency. It examines the forms that new policies have taken, the way they vary between EU countries, and the effects they have had on the life experiences of the unemployed. Its central concern is how far the new policies developed in the 1990s, in particular the spread of activation and welfare-to-work policies, address the major sources of vulnerability of the unemployed. The chapters draw on the results of a number of major comparative research programmes funded by the European Commission. These provide for the first time rigorous comparative data across a range of different countries. They bring together the insights of researchers from different disciplines: economists, jurists, social-psychologists, and social policy analysts. The book shows that while the new policy initiatives helped to mitigate the severity of the experience of unemployment, they were far from providing an adequate response to the underlying factors that put people at risk of marginalization. These were primarily due to skill deficiencies that were rooted in disadvantages that people experienced when they were young and in the persisting inequalities in training opportunities during people's work careers. The case is made for a major new policy initiative to improve the quality of working life of the low-skilled and their opportunities for skill development.

Author : International Labour Organisation
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221148394

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Minimum Income Schemes in Europe by International Labour Organisation Pdf

This book investigates the paradox of rich countries of Western Europe, who have high levels of poverty whilst proclaiming its eradication as one of the primary social and economic goals. It looks at how policies often do not achieve their goals, why countries need mechanisms to reduce wage inequality and why they choose to provide universal benefits instead of systems of selective benefits targeted at the poor. Along with cross-countries comparisons, the volume also presents analysis of the minimum income in France, Portugal, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Belgium, and Greece.