A European unemployment benefit to protect atypical workers

Xavier Jara Tamayo and Agathe Simon

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Abstract: This paper evaluates the potential of a common unemployment insurance scheme for the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU-UI) to improve income protection of atypical workers, namely those in part-time and temporary contracts. Our approach relies on simulating entitlements to national unemployment insurance and the EMU-UI to assess their effects on the household disposable income of atypical workers in the event of unemployment. Our results show that the introduction of an EMU-UI would reduce coverage gaps and increase net replacement rates, especially for atypical workers, and would protect a large share of the workforce against the risk of poverty. Extending eligibility for the EMU-UI to the self-employed would further improve income protection, reducing their risk of falling into poverty in the event of unemployment.

Keywords: unemployment insurance; European Monetary Union; microsimulation; income protection; atypical work; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 H55 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2024-02-01
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Published in Social Indicators Research, 1, February, 2024, 171(3), pp. 967 - 986. ISSN: 0303-8300

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