Publication: Choosing a System of Unemployment Income Support : Guidelines for Developing and Transition Countries
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2006-02-14
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2006-02-14
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Vodopivec, Milan
Abstract
Mounting evidence suggests that
excessive job protection reduces employment and labor market
flows, hinders technological innovations, pushes workers
into the informal sector, and hurts vulnerable groups by
depriving them of job opportunities. Flexible labor markets
stimulate job creation, investment, and growth, but they
create job insecurity and displace some workers. How can the
costs of such insecurity and displacements be minimized
while ensuring that the labor market remains flexible? Each
of the main unemployment income support systems
(unemployment insurance, unemployment assistance,
unemployment insurance savings accounts, severance pay, and
public works) has strengths and weaknesses. Country-specific
conditions, chief among them labor market and other
institutions, the capacity to administer each type of
system, and the size of the informal sector, determine which
system is best suited to developing and transition countries.
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“Vodopivec, Milan. 2006. Choosing a System of Unemployment Income Support : Guidelines for Developing and Transition Countries. World Bank Research Observer. © Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16396 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”
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