Choosing a System of Unemployment Income Support : Guidelines for Developing and Transition Countries

Vodopivec, Milan

Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank

关键词: ACCESS TO CREDIT;    ACCESS TO FUNDS;    ACCESS TO JOBS;    ACTIVE LABOR;    ACTIVE LABOR MARKET;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wbro/lkj003
RP-ID  :  76758

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Mounting evidence suggests thatexcessive job protection reduces employment and labor marketflows, hinders technological innovations, pushes workersinto the informal sector, and hurts vulnerable groups bydepriving them of job opportunities. Flexible labor marketsstimulate job creation, investment, and growth, but theycreate job insecurity and displace some workers. How can thecosts of such insecurity and displacements be minimizedwhile ensuring that the labor market remains flexible? Eachof the main unemployment income support systems(unemployment insurance, unemployment assistance,unemployment insurance savings accounts, severance pay, andpublic works) has strengths and weaknesses. Country-specificconditions, chief among them labor market and otherinstitutions, the capacity to administer each type ofsystem, and the size of the informal sector, determine whichsystem is best suited to developing and transition countries.