Unemployment Insurance
Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people. In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens. Depending on the jurisdiction and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time proportionally to the previous earned salary. Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as unemployed, and often on conditions ensuring that they seek work. In British English unemployment benefits are also colloquially referred …
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The Aspen Institute · 14 November 2024 English
Personal wealth—savings and assets minus debts—is a central component of household financial security for families at all income levels. Obtaining homeownership is frequently and justifiably viewed as a primary way …
payments (i.e. “stimulus payments”) and unemployment insurance.31 Renters are also more likely to hold … shocks. COVID-era programs such as generous unemployment insurance benefits, stimulus payments, and emergency …
Cato Institute · 13 November 2024 English
In "The Lifetime Fiscal Impact of Immigrants" (2024), the Manhattan Institute (MI) constructed a sophisticated model to estimate the likely lifetime fiscal effect of new immigrants on the US federal …
benefits—entitlements, means-tested federal benefits, unemployment insurance—and the vast majority will not end up receiving …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
Sri Lanka’s coastal fisheries are a vital source of livelihoods, food, and nutrition, and are integral to the country’s economy, culture, and society. However, coastal fish stocks are in decline …
that non-fishers do not claim benefits.74 Unemployment insurance might be an efficient option to support … feasible than establishing a new national unemployment insurance scheme, which could take a very long time …
Urban Institute · 11 November 2024 English
The average white family holds about six times as much wealth as the average Black family. Wealth disparities for young Americans are even more stark, with young white Americans holding …
DATA TOOLS, BLOGS EVENTS MENUStrengthening Unemployment Insurance: Black workers who lose a job are 24 percent … less likely than white workers to receive unemployment insurance bene�ts, primarily because Black workers … State variance in the implementation of unemployment insurance suggests that federal reform may best mitigate … pandemic demonstrated how reforms to federal unemployment insurance focused on bene�t levels, duration, and … exploring such reforms with proposals like the Unemployment Insurance Modernization and Recession Readiness Act …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English
Over the last 200 years, economies have accumulated significant experience in managing capital flows in the face of globalization. This study examines management of capital flows since the 1800s with …
“replacement ratio” associated with9 the unemployment insurance scheme, as well as a transition away from …
GFA: Global Fashion Agenda · 7 November 2024 English
This report provides a 2024 update on the fashion industry's progress towards achieving a "net positive" impact, as envisioned by the Fashion CEO Agenda. It outlines advancements, challenges, and action …
includes measures such as sick pay and unemployment insurance. Freedom of association, collective bargaining …
World Bank Group · 6 November 2024 English
This paper provides an extensive review of the literatures on product and labor market regulations and their effects on labor market outcomes. It uncovers the interdependence of these two types …
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 24.5.1 Unemployment Insurance: Impact on Living Standards . . . . . … . . . . . . . . 63 4.5.2 Unemployment Insurance: Impact on Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . 67 4.5.3 Unemployment Insurance: Impact on Social Cohesion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 4.5.4 Pension … employment, wages, and productivity of both unemployment insurance and pension plans. The employment effect … family leave to also include pension and unemployment insurance schemes as evidence on these two policies …
CESifo Network · 4 November 2024 English
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general social safety net transfers (e.g., unemployment insurance), which are estimated to increase by 1 …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 November 2024 English
Many government social insurance policies have low take-up. To understand whether this is due to administrative barriers, information, or low valuation of the insurance, we study an unusual policy experiment …
and J. Spinnewijn (2021). The value of unemployment insurance. The Review of Economic Studies 88(6), …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 November 2024 English
Governments use short-time work (STW) schemes to subsidize job preservation during crises. We study the take-up of STW and its effects on worker outcomes and firm behavior using German administrative …
studies the effects of adjusting PBD for unemployment insurance (see Schmieder and Von Wachter, 42016, … nature of extensions, alongside the PBD of unemployment insurance (UI). Unlike in the US where UI PBD is … T. Von Wachter (2016): “The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits: New Evidence and Interpretation … For comparison, we also plot the PBD for unemployment insurance (UI) (dashed blue, LHS scale) as well the …
