With the aim to provide guidelines for countries wishing to introduce or improve income support systems for the unemployed, the book summarizes the evidence about the performance of five such systems: - unemployment insurance, - unemployment assistance, - unemployment insurance savings accounts, - severance pay, and - public works. These systems are evaluated by two sets of criteria: (i) performance criteria, evaluating how well these systems work--how they protect incomes and what other, particularly efficiency related, effects they may have; and (ii) design and implementation criteria, evaluating how these systems fit the country--how suitable these programs are given country-specific conditions, chief among them being labor market and other institutions, the capacity needed for administering income support programs, the size of the informal sector, and prevalence of private transfers. Income Support for the Unemployed also offers summary evaluations of alternative systems by describing the strengths and weaknesses of each system and pointing out the country specific circumstances which are particularly conducive to performance.
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Unemployment is becoming an increasingly pressing problem in many parts of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unemployment insurance savings accounts, alternative income support programs, legislated severance pay, public income support programs, social risk management mechanisms, traditional unemployment insurance, severance pay programs, unemployment support programs, various income support programs, entitlement duration, introducing unemployment insurance, benefit elasticity, social risk management framework, covariant shocks, benefit exhaustion, informal insurance mechanisms, duration elasticity, nonperformance problem, optimal unemployment insurance, other income support programs, unemployment assistance programs, unemployment benefit programs, labor market flows, unemployment benefit recipients, equilibrium unemployment rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Republic of Korea, Latin America, Slovak Republic, United Kingdom, World Bank, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Czech Republic, East Asian, Argentina's Trabajar, Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme, Western Europe, Participation Expenditure, Russian Federation, Contribution Severance, International Labour Organization, Tempo de Servico, Van Domelen New!
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Unemployment is becoming an increasingly pressing problem in many parts of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unemployment insurance savings accounts, alternative income support programs, legislated severance pay, public income support programs, social risk management mechanisms, traditional unemployment insurance, severance pay programs, unemployment support programs, various income support programs, entitlement duration, introducing unemployment insurance, benefit elasticity, social risk management framework, covariant shocks, benefit exhaustion, informal insurance mechanisms, duration elasticity, nonperformance problem, optimal unemployment insurance, other income support programs, unemployment assistance programs, unemployment benefit programs, labor market flows, unemployment benefit recipients, equilibrium unemployment rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Republic of Korea, Latin America, Slovak Republic, United Kingdom, World Bank, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Czech Republic, East Asian, Argentina's Trabajar, Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme, Western Europe, Participation Expenditure, Russian Federation, Contribution Severance, International Labour Organization, Tempo de Servico, Van Domelen New!
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- Lessons from Labour Market Policies in the Transition Countries by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Working Papers by Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Letters from the Antipodes by Michel Butor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Public Spending and the Poor (World Bank) by Professor Dominique van de Walle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Job Security in America: Lessons from Germany by Katharine G. Abraham in Back Matter
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