The Canadian Unemployment Insurance Generosity: Reflections from a Comparative Analysis

Amine, Samir

dc.contributor.author	Amine, Samir	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-07T12:00:20Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-07T12:00:20Z
dc.date.issued	2016-09-24	en
dc.identifier.issn	1508-2008	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20515
dc.description.abstract	The unemployment compensation system is at the centre of the current economic and political debate in many Western countries which, under the effects of the increase in public debt, must decide the level of their unemployment insurance while taking into account its impact on the performance of the labour market. In this article, we compare the generosity of such public policy in France and in Canada, while focusing on the experience of central and eastern Europe. By building a composite index, we show that the French unemployment insurance is more generous only in pecuniary terms, and not in its qualitative dimension.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Comparative Economic Research;19	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0	en
dc.subject	unemployment insurance	en
dc.subject	generosity	en
dc.subject	pecuniary	en
dc.title	The Canadian Unemployment Insurance Generosity: Reflections from a Comparative Analysis	en
dc.page.number	133-145	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Professor, Department of Industrial and Labour relations, University of Quebec (Outaouais), Canada and Fellow in CIRANO, Montreal	en
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	samir.amine@uqo.ca	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/cer-2016-0024	en

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