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Fixing a Persistent Problem: Canada's Regional Pockets of Unemployment

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Colin Busby (C.D. Howe Institute)
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Canada's Employment Insurance program pays weekly benefits to the unemployed that vary in generosity across regions. While the variable entrance requirements help deliver more benefits to seasonal workers, the mechanism spreads the generosity of benefits to all workers in a region, raising the costs of the program and hindering labour market adjustment.

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Paper provided by C.D. Howe Institute in its series e-briefs with number 66.

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Date of creation: Oct 2008
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Publication status: Published on the C.D. Howe Institute website, October 2008
Handle: RePEc:cdh:ebrief:66

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Keywords: social policy; Canadian EI program; employment insurance reform;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution
J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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