Choosing a System of Unemployment Income Support : Guidelines for Developing and Transition Countries

Mounting evidence suggests that excessive job protection reduces employment and labor market flows, hinders technological innovations, pushes workers into the informal sector, and hurts vulnerable groups by depriving them of job opportunities. Flexible labor markets stimulate job creation, investment, and growth, but they create job insecurity and displace some workers. How can the costs of such insecurity and displacements be minimized while ensuring that the labor market remains flexible? Each of the main unemployment income support systems (unemployment insurance, unemployment assistance, unemployment insurance savings accounts, severance pay, and public works) has strengths and weaknesses. Country-specific conditions, chief among them labor market and other institutions, the capacity to administer each type of system, and the size of the informal sector, determine which system is best suited to developing and transition countries.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Vodopivec, Milan
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2006-02-14
Subjects:	ACCESS TO CREDIT, ACCESS TO FUNDS, ACCESS TO JOBS, ACTIVE LABOR, ACTIVE LABOR MARKET, ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS, ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, ADVERSE EFFECTS, ADVERSE SELECTION, AFFORDABILITY, AGGREGATE EMPLOYMENT, AGGREGATE PRODUCTIVITY, AGGREGATE PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH, AVERAGE WAGE, BENEFIT PAYMENTS, BORROWING, BUSINESS PLANS, CAPITAL MARKET, CASH TRANSFERS, CHILD ALLOWANCES, COLLATERAL, COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING, CONTRIBUTORY SYSTEM, CRISES, DEBT, DEPOSIT, DEPOSITS, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, DISMISSAL, EARNINGS, EARNINGS LOSSES, ECONOMIC COOPERATION, ECONOMIC INSECURITY, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA, EMPLOYABILITY, EMPLOYEE, EMPLOYER, EMPLOYERS, EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE, EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME, EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEMES, EMPLOYMENT OFFICES, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION LEGISLATION, EMPLOYMENT RATES, EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP, EMPLOYMENT SPELL, EMPLOYMENT SUBSIDIES, EMPLOYMENT SUBSIDY, EMPLOYMENT SUBSIDY PROGRAMS, EMPOWERMENT, EQUILIBRIUM UNEMPLOYMENT, EQUITABLE ACCESS, EXCHANGE RATES, EXPENDITURE, EXTENDED FAMILIES, FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, FIRING COSTS, FIRM LEVEL, FLEXIBLE LABOR MARKETS, FOOD SUBSIDIES, FORMAL SECTOR WORKERS, GROSS WAGES, HEALTH INSURANCE, HIGH · UNEMPLOYMENT, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD INCOMES, HOUSEHOLDS, HUMAN RESOURCE, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES, INCENTIVE PROBLEMS, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME GROUP, INCOME INEQUALITIES, INCOME REDISTRIBUTION, INCOME SUPPORT, INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAM, INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS, INCOME SUPPORT SYSTEM, INCOME SUPPORT SYSTEMS, INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT, INFORMAL SECTOR, INFORMAL SECTOR WORKERS, INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, INTERNATIONAL BANK, JOB CREATION, JOB INSECURITY, JOB OPPORTUNITIES, JOB SEARCH, JOB SEARCH ASSISTANCE, JOB SECURITY, JOB SEPARATION, JOB TENURE, JOBS, LABOR ECONOMICS, LABOR FORCE, LABOR FORCE ATTACHMENT, LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, LABOR MARKET, LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS, LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES, LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE, LABOR MARKET POLICIES, LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS, LABOR MARKET RIGIDITIES, LABOR MARKETS, LABOR MOBILITY, LABOR POLICY, LABOR REALLOCATION, LABOR REGULATION, LABOR SUPPLY, LABOUR, LABOUR MARKET, LABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE, LAID-OFF WORKERS, LAYOFFS, LIMITED ACCESS, MARKET FAILURES, MEANS TESTING, MINIMUM WAGE, MORAL HAZARD, OLD AGE, OLDER WORKERS, PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT, PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POLITICAL SUPPORT, POOR, POVERTY REDUCTION, PRIVATE PROVIDERS, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS, PRIVATE TRANSFERS, PRODUCTIVITY GAINS, PUBLIC SPENDING, PUBLIC UNEMPLOYMENT, PUBLIC WORKS, PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM, PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS, PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS, RECESSIONS, REMITTANCES, REPAYMENT, RETIREMENT, SAFETY, SAFETY NET, SAFETY NET PROGRAMS, SAVINGS, SAVINGS ACCOUNT, SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, SAVINGS MECHANISMS, SELF-EMPLOYMENT, SEVERANCE BENEFITS, SEVERANCE PAY, SEVERANCE PAY SYSTEM, SEVERANCE PAY SYSTEMS, SEVERANCE PAYMENT, SEVERANCE PAYMENTS, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, SOCIAL EXCLUSION, SOCIAL FUNDS, SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAMS, SOCIAL SECURITY, SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, TARGETING, TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS, TRAINING SERVICES, TRANSFER BENEFITS, UNEMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUAL, UNEMPLOYED WORKERS, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT, UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SYSTEM, UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUNDS, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAMS, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SYSTEM, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, UNEMPLOYMENT SPELL, UNEMPLOYMENT SPELLS, UNFUNDED LIABILITIES, VULNERABLE GROUPS, WAGE EMPLOYMENT, WORKER, WORKERS, YOUNG WORKERS, YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/02/17591227/choosing-system-unemployment-income-support-guidelines-developing-transition-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16396
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