From Work to Welfare: Institutional Arrangements Shaping Turkish Marriage Migrants’ Gendered Trajectories into a New Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 964-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibeke Jakobsen ◽  
Anika Liversage
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Ethnic Networks ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
Gendered Expectations

Using a mixed methods approach, this article examines gendered patterns of employment and of unemployment benefit uptake among Turkish marriage migrants in Denmark. The results show that men use co-ethnic networks to access entry positions. Subsequent eligibility for unemployment benefits enable these men to search for better jobs. Women enter employment more slowly and tell of such entry being related to entering the unemployment insurance system, enabling them to periodically conform to gendered expectations as homemakers. Pakistani marriage migrants display similar patterns, indicating the centrality of this institutional arrangement in low-skilled marriage migrants’ active adaptation to a new society.

scholarly journals Distributive Consequences of Risk Privatization: The Case of the Swedish Unemployment Insurance System

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-235
Author(s):  
Jayeon Lindellee
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
The Public ◽  
Insurance Benefit ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
Unemployment Insurance Benefit ◽  
Income Insurance ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
Retail Workers

Abstract The public unemployment insurance program in Sweden has retrenched in terms of its benefit generosity in the last three decades. As a response to this trend, in which an ever-smaller proportion of the previous income of unemployed persons is compensated by public unemployment insurance benefit, complementary income insurance schemes provided by unions have expanded rapidly in the last 15 years, currently covering one half of the working population. What does this change mean for people who need income protection upon unemployment and are more likely to find themselves unemployed or underemployed? By analyzing survey-based benefit recipiency data among retail workers who were unemployed in 2014, this article explores the outcomes of the multi-pillarized unemployment benefit provision system in Sweden. While public unemployment insurance benefit does not fully compensate for the income loss for the majority of retail workers, the promise of a complementary income insurance scheme seems to be illusory for many individuals as they repeatedly oscillate between precarious work and benefits, accompanied by the burden of navigating a complex system.

scholarly journals Front-Loading the Unemployment Benefit: An Empirical Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Lindner ◽  
Balázs Reizer
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Sharp Change ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Cost Increase ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Pareto Improving

We estimate the effect of front-loading unemployment benefit payments on nonemployment duration and reemployment wages. Exploiting a sharp change in the path of benefits for those who claimed unemployment benefits after November 1, 2005 in Hungary, we show that nonemployment duration fell by two weeks, while reemployment wages rose by 1.4 percent as a result of front-loading. We show that these behavioral responses were large enough to offset the mechanical cost increase of the unemployment insurance. We argue that our results indicate that benefit front-loading was a Pareto improving policy reform as both unemployed and employed workers were made better off. (JEL D91, J31, J64, J65)

Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Accounts: The Best of Both Worlds

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1302-1340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofer Setty
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Precautionary Savings ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
Savings Accounts ◽  
The Us ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Government Benefits

Abstract Unemployment accounts are mandatory individual savings accounts that can be used only during unemployment or retirement. Unlike unemployment insurance, unemployment accounts solve the moral hazard problem but provide no public insurance to workers. I study a hybrid system that borrows from concepts of both unemployment insurance and unemployment accounts, in which workers are mandated to save when employed and can withdraw from the account when unemployed. Once the account is exhausted, the unemployed worker receives unemployment benefits. This hybrid policy provides insurance to workers more efficiently than an unemployment insurance system because it provides government benefits selectively. As a consequence, young workers can reduce their precautionary savings and better smooth their consumption over the life cycle. Calibrating the model to the US economy, I find that, relative to an optimal unemployment insurance system, the optimal hybrid policy leads to a welfare gain of 2.4%, measured as consumption equivalent variation.

Rise up and Work! Workless People with Impaired Health under Germany's New Activation Regime

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Brussig ◽  
Matthias Knuth
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
Impaired Health ◽  
New System

‘Unemployment Benefit II’ (Arbeitslosengeld II) is the newly created benefit in Germany for workless and needy people of working age who either lack or have exhausted entitlements in the contribution-based unemployment insurance system. This paper explores the effects of an ‘activating’ benefit regime on respondents with inferior health-related capacities by re-analysing data from a recent customer panel survey of this population of recipients. For one, the overall level of activation produced by the new system is differentiated with regard to the health status of the target population. Second, the effects of activation on two employment-related outcomes are estimated, taking health into account.

scholarly journals Lessons from the ongoing crisis for labour market institutions in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Irina A. Denisova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
Employment Subsidy

The paper discusses the role of unemployment insurance system in economic development in general and in the context of the ongoing crisis due to the forced lockdown related to COVID-19. The key elements of employment subsidy programs with reduced working hours or partial unemployment benefits, based on the experience of OECD countries get special attention.

Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer / Employment and Unemployment of the Elderly

2007 ◽  
Vol 227 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Müller ◽  
Ralf A. Wilke ◽  
Philipp Zahn
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
German Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System

SummaryIn 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits of the older unemployed in the subsequent years. This paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group is of particular interest because it lost a smooth early retirement path via the unemployment benefits scheme. In our empirical analysis we use German administrative individual data drawn form the registers of the federal employment agency and of the public pension funds. After the reform we expect a lower risk of unemployment and shorter unemployment durations for the considered age group. This is confirmed by our empirical analysis. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the expense of the unemployment insurance. In particular larger companies and their employees use extended entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for early retirement purposes.

scholarly journals Guaranteed Wages and Unemployment Insurance in Canada

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
C. F . Owen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Relationship

Summary The emergence of guaranteed wage plans in the automobile industry, likely to spread to other fields in the near future, poses the problem of the relationship between such plans and the national Unemployment Insurance system in Canada. This article is an attempt to indicate, by a comparative analysis of Canadian and U.S. Unemployment Insurance systems, to what extent problems associated with U.S. unemployment insurance systems, and the possible integration of these systems with company supplemental unemployment benefit plans, are applicable to Canada.

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