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Blame for unemployment and support for unemployment benefits

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  • Yoon Soo Lee

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It is necessary to expand the literature on social insurance preferences and examine how perceptions on the causes of staying unemployed influence preferences for unemployment benefits. First, this paper argues that people have lower support for unemployment benefits if they attribute unemployment to individual characteristics. Second, it is argued that the effect of individual attribution of unemployment on support for unemployment benefits is larger for people with low risk of unemployment. People who are less likely to receive future benefits are more sensitive to the possibility that receivers are free-riders who do not deserve benefits. Supporting individual level evidence is provided by statistical analysis using the European Social Survey (ESS).

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  • Yoon Soo Lee, 2019. "Blame for unemployment and support for unemployment benefits," International Review of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 1-16, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rrpaxx:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:1-16
    DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2018.1560959
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