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Social policy --- Income --- Labour market --- Developing countries --- Unemployment insurance. --- Supplemental unemployment benefits. --- Severance pay. --- Public works. --- Public works projects --- Buildings --- Construction projects --- Civil engineering --- Compensation, Dismissal --- Discharge benefits --- Dismissal pay --- Dismissal wage --- Lay-off compensation --- Redundancy payments --- Wages --- Unemployment benefits, Supplemental --- Unemployment insurance --- Insurance, Unemployment --- Unemployment benefits --- Unemployment compensation --- Income maintenance programs --- Insurance

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The most important contribution to this book comes from the authors, all of whom have been students of the unemployment insurance program for many years. They share a common belief in the importance of unemployment insurance as a critical component of the American social insurance system as well as the need for comprehensive reform of the system to assure its effectiveness and efficiency in the 21st century.

Unemployment insurance --- Government policy --- Insurance, Unemployment --- Unemployment benefits --- Unemployment compensation --- Income maintenance programs --- Insurance --- E-books --- Central / national / federal government policies

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"Severance pay, a program that provides compensation to workers on termination of employment, is the most widely used income protection program for the unemployed--yet it is often blamed for creating economic inefficiencies such as reducing employment and limiting access to jobs for disadvantaged groups. Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective fills the knowledge gap in evaluating the international experience by providing a collection of worldwide overviews and labor market impact assessments, theoretical analyses, and country case studies. The authors summarize the performance of existing severance pay arrangements around the world and discuss recent innovative severance pay reforms in Austria, Chile, and the Republic of Korea. Reforming Severance Pay proposes policy directions based on country characteristics such as folding severance pay of higher income countries into existing social insurance programs and making severance pay a contractual affair between market partners to live up to the efficiency-enhancing device in a knowledge-based economy. For lower income countries, the authors advise reforming severance pay toward realistic benefit levels, strengthening compliance of benefit payments by the employer, and safeguarding minimum benefits. This report will be of interest to policy makers and researchers working on labor market, unemployment benefit, and pension issues; economic policy reform; poverty reduction; and social analysis and policy"--P. [4] of cover.

Severance pay --Case studies. --- Severance pay. --- Unemployment insurance --Case studies. --- Unemployment insurance. --- Severance pay --- Unemployment insurance --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Insurance, Unemployment --- Unemployment benefits --- Unemployment compensation --- Compensation, Dismissal --- Discharge benefits --- Dismissal pay --- Dismissal wage --- Lay-off compensation --- Redundancy payments --- Wages --- Income maintenance programs --- Insurance

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This paper presents an analysis of the behavior of the Swiss labor market, which emphasizes both changes to labor supply and real wage inflexibility as determinants of recent unusually high levels of unemployment. Supply responses in the past meant that measured unemployment rates were rarely high. The paper suggests that these responses also meant that real wages were probably less responsive to shocks as a result. Econometric tests reported in the paper broadly confirm these suggestions, and imply that the level of unemployment consistent with stable inflation has risen in Switzerland.

Labor --- Public Finance --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Unemployment Insurance --- Severance Pay --- Plant Closings --- Labour --- income economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Unemployment --- Real wages --- Labor markets --- Unemployment rate --- Wages --- Unemployment benefits --- Expenditure --- Labor market --- Unemployment insurance --- Switzerland

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This Selected Issues paper investigates the possible contribution of activation strategies—in a broad sense—to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively the limitation of current unemployment and disability benefit schemes. The paper identifies possible strategies to activate recipients, and focuses on strategies to boost youth employment rates. The paper also discusses the possibility of using in-work benefit systems to create incentives to work at the low-skilled end of the labor market.

Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Labor Economics: General --- Unemployment Insurance --- Severance Pay --- Plant Closings --- Labour --- income economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Labor markets --- Unemployment benefits --- Expenditure --- Labor market --- Economic theory --- Labor economics --- Unemployment insurance --- Finland