Ui
Ui

Author: Canada. Unemployment Insurance

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Income and Living Standards During Unemployment
Income and Living Standards During Unemployment

Author: Martin Browning

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this report is to examine the impact of two important changes to Canadas regular Unemployment Insurance system on the incomes and material well- being of individuals who became unemployed after April 1993. Section 1 of the report lays some of the groundwork for research and discusses some of the theories that must be taken into consideration in the work. It also outlines some characteristics of the sample used for analyses. Section 2 examines how personal and household incomes are affected by changes in benefit levels and entitlements, such as those that came into effect in April, 1993, and Section 3 focuses on how UI legislative changes might affect household expenditures. Section 4 presents conclusions about the impacts on the incomes and material well-being of unemployed people in Canada, if UI benefits are reduced, or if they receive no UI benefits at all. Appendices A and B methods in more technical detail.

Designing Labor Market Institutions in Emerging and Developing Economies
Designing Labor Market Institutions in Emerging and Developing Economies

Author: Mr.Romain A Duval

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1498313264

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This paper discusses theoretical aspects and evidences related to designing labor market institutions in emerging market and developing economies. This note reviews the state of theory and evidence on the design of labor market institutions in a developing economy context and then reviews its consistency with actual labor market advice in a selected set of emerging and developing economies. The focus is mainly on three broad sets of institutions that matter for both workers’ protection and labor market efficiency: employment protection, unemployment insurance and social assistance, minimum wages and collective bargaining. Text mining techniques are used to identify IMF recommendations in these areas in Article IV Reports for 30 emerging and frontier economies over 2005–2016. This note has provided a critical review of the literature on the design of labor market institutions in emerging and developing market economies, and benchmarked the advice featured in IMF recommendations for 30 emerging market and frontier economies against the tentative conclusions from the literature.