Back to Basics: Restoring Equity and Efficiency in the EI Program - EI Reform Part II

Colin Busby, Alexandre Laurin and David M. Gray
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Colin Busby: C.D. Howe Institute
Alexandre Laurin: C.D. Howe Institute

No 84, e-briefs from C.D. Howe Institute

Abstract: Regionally based entry requirements and benefit durations prolong the persistence of unemployment and reduce economic incentives to adjust to labour-market conditions. Reforms aimed at equity are overdue. Regionally based criteria should be replaced by uniform, countrywide, employment insurance entrance requirements and benefit durations.

Keywords: employment; insurance; reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ias, nep-lab and nep-mac
Date: 2009-08
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Published on the C.D. Howe Institute website, August 2009

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