Download or read book Unemployment Insurance Work Disincentives and the Canadian Labour Market written by Statistics Canada and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unemployment Insurance and Work Effort written by Derek Hum and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Work Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance written by Raymond Munts and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on the work disincentive effects of unemployment benefit in the USA - analyses the increased unemployment effects and counter-business cycle effects on selected population groups, and includes theoretics and empirical studies. References and statistical tables.

Download or read book Brief to the Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance written by Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto and published by The Council. This book was released on 1986 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From UI to EI written by Georges Campeau and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada’s system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims. If governments could not create the right conditions for full employment, they were obligated to compensate people who could not find work. While unemployment insurance expanded over several decades to the benefit of the rights of the unemployed, the mid-1970s saw the first stirrings of a counterattack as the federal government’s Keynesian strategy came under siege. Neo-liberalists denounced unemployment insurance and other aspects of the welfare state as inflationary and unproductive. Employment was increasingly thought to be a personal responsibility and the handling of the unemployed was to reflect a free-market approach. This regressive movement culminated in the 1990s counter-reforms, heralding a major policy shift. The number of unemployed with access to benefits was halved during that time. From UI to EI examines the history of Canada’s unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed. The development of the system, its legislation, and related jurisprudence are viewed through a historical perspective that accounts for the social, political, and economic context. Campeau critically examines the system with emphasis upon its more recent transformations. This book will interest professors and students of law, political science, and social work, and anyone concerned about the right of the unemployed to adequate protection.

Download or read book State Class and Bureaucracy written by Leslie Alexander Pal and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent explanations of public policy have increasingly focused on "state-centred" theories which emphasize internal state dynamics, as opposed to "society-centred" theories which concentrate on external forces such as interest group pressure. State, Class, and Bureaucracy assesses the fruitfulness of these approaches by comparing neo-Marxist and neo-pluralist explanations (society-centred) with explanations that emphasize the effects of bureaucracy and federalism (state-centred). Unemployment insurance (UI) was chosen as a case study because of its importance to employer and employee groups; if any program or policy is susceptible to a society-centred explanation, UI should be.

Download or read book The Problem is Jobs Not People written by Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Comprehensive Review of the Unemployment Insurance Program in Canada written by Canada. Unemployment Insurance Commission and published by Unemployment Insurance Canada. This book was released on 1977 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unemployment Insurance written by Christopher Green and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unemployment insurance is the federal government's largest single social program and its most controversial. This document asks: How do we make unemployment insurance work? Two papers, by Christopher Green and Fred Lazar, give very direct, if also very differenct, answers to that question. Two other papers, by Miles Corak and Dominique Gross, provide background analysis on what economic research has discovered about the workings of Canada's unemployment insurance program and how other countries handle unemployment insurance.

Download or read book Incentives and Disincentives to Work written by National Council of Welfare (Canada) and published by The. This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Causes of Unemployment in Canada written by Stephen S. Poloz and published by Policy and Economic Analysis Program, Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto. This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Persistence of Unemployment written by Stephen R.G. Jones and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deep recession and slow recovery of the Canadian economy in the 1980s and the lengthy recession of the early 1990s raised serious questions about economic policy making. The steady worsening of Canadian unemployment rates led some economists to doubt the traditional view that the national economy is by nature self-correcting and to endorse the concept of hysteresis - the idea that the unemployment rate may display no tendency to return to an unchanging natural rate. Such hysteresis would have important and far-reaching implications for economic policy, particularly monetary policy. Jones provides an overview of leading theories of hysteresis and examines international and Canadian evidence from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. He extends the econometric analysis of hysteresis at both the micro and macro levels and concludes that while there is some evidence of dependence in Canada, the overall picture is not one of hysteresis.

Download or read book Jobs Excluded from the Unemployment Insurance System in Canada written by Zhengxi Lin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and the Dynamics of the Labor Market written by Min Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines a number of issues regarding the Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model's empirical performance. Chapter 1 documents the volatility puzzle with the Canadian data. The combined data from both Canada and the United States present an additional difficulty. Even if the unobserved value of leisure is allowed to be as high as required to fit the business cycle in the United States or in Canada, the model cannot reconcile the similar labor cycles with the large policy differences in the UI benefits and income taxes in the two countries when the value of leisure is assumed to be the same in both countries. Chapter 2 takes into account the realistic institutional features of the UI system and investigates the impacts of the UI benefits on the labor market outcomes. If entitlement to UI benefits must be earned with employment, generous UI is an additional benefit to an employment relationship, so it promotes job creation. If individuals are risk neutral, UI is fairly priced, and the UI system prevents moral-hazard unemployed workers, the generosity of UI has no effect on unemployment. Chapter 3 shows that the Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model can be successfully parameterized to generate observed large cyclical fluctuations in unemployment and modest responses of unemployment to changes in the UI benefits. The key features behind this success are the endogenous eligibility for UI benefits and the heterogeneity of workers. With the linear utilities commonly assumed in the Mortensen-Pissarides model, a fully rated UI system designed to prevent moral hazard has no effect on unemployment. However, the UI system in the United States is neither fully rated nor able to prevent workers with low productivity from quitting their jobs or rejecting employment offers to collect benefits. As a result, an increase in UI generosity has a positive, but realistically small, effect on unemployment. This chapter answers the Costain and Reiter (2008) criticism with the Mortensen-Pissarides model.

Download or read book State Dependence and Unemployment Insurance written by Thomas Lemieux and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Not Working written by Stephen McBride and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 300 alphabetical entries examine women of distinction in American theatre--actors, directors, designers, choreographers, playwrights, critics, agents, etc. The entries describe the women's professional contributions and provide biographical information and bibliographical materials. Two separate appendices contain listings by place of birth and by profession. Primarily a reference for college and university libraries. McBride argues that the return of high unemployment in Canada after decades of almost full employment can best be understood as the product of a political choice by policy makers--a choice linked to the preferences and growing power of Canadian business in the post-1975 period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Understanding Employment Insurance Claim Patterns written by Shawn de Raaf and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed within the context of a discussion of the principles underlying the present-day EI program, this research leads the authors to identify policy options that are worth exploring further in order to make EI more responsive to the realities of today's labour market, while at the same time addressing potential disincentives and inequities in the current system. [...] This study shows that the relationship between EI and the decision to migrate is complex and depends on individuals' degree of attachment to the labour market, since only those who work few weeks per year were found to be more likely to move following the tightening of the EI program in the mid-1990s. [...] This overhaul took the form of the Employment Insurance (EI) program introduced in 1996 to bring the program up-to-pace with changes in the economy.6 Along with a requirement to reduce program costs, program designers endeavoured "to ensure that the system was responsive to the realities of today's labour market and to remove disincentives and inequities in the system" (HRDC, 1998b, p. i). [...] The 1996 reform represented the culmination of a series of modifications in the mid- 1990s that reduced the generosity of the program. [...] Another important research element was the series of in-depth evaluation studies sponsored by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) in the late 1990s, which provided important lessons in the ongoing refinement of the program.7 The subject matter of these studies was wide-ranging, from the impact of EI's switch to an hours-based system to the implementation of income supplements for.