Mending Canada's Employment Insurance Quilt: The Case for Restoring Equity

Colin Busby and David Gray
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C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder, 2011, issue 144

Abstract: Under the current Employment Insurance (EI) system, long-lasting EI benefits are more easily accessed in regions with high unemployment rates than in regions with low unemployment rates where workers face tighter restrictions to access short-lived benefits. This complicated screening procedure, intended to better support the various circumstances facing unemployed workers across the country, creates a number of undesirable consequences: the most glaring being pockets of high, chronic unemployment. The goals and intentions of the EI regime should be simplified to better address the needs of Canada’s unemployed workers.

Keywords: Social Policy; Canada; employment insurance (EI); EI reforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J6 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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