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

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Colin Busby (C.D. Howe Institute)
Alexandre Laurin (C.D. Howe Institute)
David Gray (University of Ottawa)

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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.

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Paper provided by C.D. Howe Institute in its series e-briefs with number 84.

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Date of creation: Aug 2009
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Publication status: Published on the C.D. Howe Institute website, August 2009
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Keywords: employment insurance reform;

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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
J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Public Policy

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  1. Peter Kuhn & Chris Riddell, 2006. "The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991," NBER Working Papers 11932, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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