Lessons from the American Federal-State Unemployment Insurance System for a European Unemployment Benefits System

Barnow, Burt S.

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“…The harmonization of different national UI systems could be a major challenge in designing a EUBS (Andor, 2016; Beblavý et al, 2015). To inform the design of a EUBS, policy researchers have recently sought to explore the experience with the American federal-state system (Lenaerts et al, 2017; O’Leary and Barnow, 2016).…”

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Unequal Social Protection under the Federalist System: Three Unemployment Insurance Approaches in the United States, 2007–2015

Chang

2019

J. Soc. Pol.

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Despite the increased attention paid to federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) schemes after the Great Recession (2007–2009), research examining the policy characteristics and the underlying logic shaping the social protection provided by a federal-state UI system is limited. Integrating the perspectives of policy design theory, comparative welfare politics, and fiscal welfare, this paper examines the unequal social protection under the American UI system during and after the Great Recession. By using model-based cluster analysis and fixed-effect panel regression models, this paper identifies three distinct UI approaches, i.e. the limited social protection approach, the unbalanced social protection approach, and the balanced social protection approach. The policy choices made by those states that follow the three approaches reflect different mixtures of policy logic, including social protection, economic stabilization, work disincentives, and interstate competition. The overall downward trend in social protection signals that the American UI system is under-prepared for the next economic recession, thereby exposing unemployed workers to the risk of economic insecurity. These findings provide implications for future policy designs aiming to strengthen the social protection of the federal-state UI system.

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Unequal Social Protection under the Federalist System: Three Unemployment Insurance Approaches in the United States, 2007–2015

Chang

2019

J. Soc. Pol.

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Lessons from the American federal‐state unemployment insurance system for a European unemployment benefits system

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Barnow

Lenaerts

2020

Int Social Security Review

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This article reviews practices in the United States (US) federal‐state unemployment insurance (UI) system regarding applicant eligibility, benefit generosity, benefit financing and emergency measures with the aim of revealing lessons for a possible European unemployment benefit system (EUBS) for European Union (EU) Member States. We overview the US system for UI and examine important areas of federal leadership. While the US system offers some good ideas for setting up an EUBS, there are also lessons in some shortcomings of the US experience. We overview existing national UI systems in the EU and review the debate on an EUBS in the EU. We identify areas of risk for individual and institutional moral hazard in a multi‐tiered UI system and give examples of monitoring methods and incentives to ameliorate such risks. We suggest approaches for gradual system development, encouraging lower‐tier behaviour, benefit financing, and responses to regional and system‐wide labour market crises.

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Die Chancen und Risiken eines Experience rating in der Arbeitslosenversicherung

Eppel

Mahringer

2019

Perspektiven Der Wirtschaftspolitik

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ZusammenfassungRainer Eppel und Helmut Mahringer beleuchten die Chancen und Risiken unterschiedlicher Gestaltungsvarianten eines Experience rating in der Arbeitslosenversicherung. Hintergrund dafür ist der Befund, dass eine durch pauschale Arbeitgeberbeiträge finanzierte Arbeitslosenversicherung unerwünschte Umverteilungseffekte produziert und Anreize zu vermehrten, häufig nur vorübergehenden Beschäftigungsbeendigungen setzt. Studien zeigen für die Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada und einige Länder Europas, dass dies einen substanziellen Teil der Arbeitslosigkeit verursacht. Ein Experience rating in der Form erfahrungsbasierter und risikoabhängiger Arbeitgeberbeiträge birgt die Chance, ein Übermaß an vorübergehenden Kündigungen zu vermeiden und die Arbeitslosigkeit sowie die Folgebelastungen für die Arbeitslosenversicherung zu mindern. Risikofaktoren, die bei der Beitragsgestaltung berücksichtigt werden sollten, liegen besonders in einer zu starken Einschränkung der Flexibilität der Unternehmen, einer Verschärfung von Unternehmenskrisen und einer Hemmung von Neueinstellungen auf Kosten der Jobchancen von Arbeitslosen.

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Lessons from the American Federal-State Unemployment Insurance System for a European Unemployment Benefits System

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Unequal Social Protection under the Federalist System: Three Unemployment Insurance Approaches in the United States, 2007–2015

Unequal Social Protection under the Federalist System: Three Unemployment Insurance Approaches in the United States, 2007–2015

Lessons from the American federal‐state unemployment insurance system for a European unemployment benefits system

Die Chancen und Risiken eines Experience rating in der Arbeitslosenversicherung

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