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European Unemployment Insurance: Proposal for a Different Europe?

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The European Commission has launched an initiative for a European unemployment insurance scheme. The economic imbalances between the crisis-afflicted states and the core that have recently become apparent in the euro crisis form the background to this article. In his commentary, Dirk Meyer, Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg, argues against a European unemployment scheme. He believes that the supranational transfers that would accompany harmonisation and convergence attempts would reduce efforts on the part of individual member states and weaken the donor countries.

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  • Dirk Meyer, 2014. "European Unemployment Insurance: Proposal for a Different Europe?," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 67(07), pages 13-16, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:67:y:2014:i:07:p:13-16
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    JEL classification:

    • J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy

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