IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/lis/liswps/309.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Unemployment Compensation Programs Effect on the Employment of Young Men: A Cross-National Comparison of Canadian, British and American Unemployment Policies

Author

Listed:
  • Tess Heintze

Abstract

This study compares the receipt rates of unemployment compensation of American young men (aged 18-25) with those from Canada and the United Kingdom. The results indicate that American young men are far less likely to receive compensation for their unemployment than are youth from the other two nations. Pooling the data from all three nations together we find that receipt of unemployment insurance in the prior year is complementary to current work participation whereas unemployment assistance benefits act as a work disincentive. This analysis indicates that the most effective policy alternatives are to increase the length of time that young men can accept insurance benefits and/or to raise the amount of income recipients can retain before the reduction of insurance benefits.

Suggested Citation

  • Tess Heintze, 2002. "Unemployment Compensation Programs Effect on the Employment of Young Men: A Cross-National Comparison of Canadian, British and American Unemployment Policies," LIS Working papers 309, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    • Handle: RePEc:lis:liswps:309
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/309.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Frederick J. Tannery, 1983. "Search Effort and Unemployment Insurance Reconsidered," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 18(3), pages 432-440.
    2. Timothy M. Smeeding & Peter Gottschalk, 1998. "The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand?," International Economic Association Series, in: Yair Mundlak (ed.), Contemporary Economic Issues, chapter 3, pages 39-61, Palgrave Macmillan.
    3. Dennis Sullivan & Timothy Smeeding, 1997. "Educational Attainment and Earnings Inequality in Eight Nations," LIS Working papers 164, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    4. Joakim Palme & Walter Korpi, 1998. "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Poverty in the Western Countries," LIS Working papers 174, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mona Sandbæk, 2017. "European Policies to Promote Children’s Rights and Combat Child Poverty," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-13, July.
    2. Jin Wook Kim & Young Jun Choi, 2008. "Private Transfers and Emerging Welfare States in East Asia: Comparative Perspectives," LIS Working papers 507, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    3. Cristiano Perugini & Gaetano Martino, 2008. "Income Inequality Within European Regions: Determinants And Effects On Growth," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 54(3), pages 373-406, September.
    4. Cem Baslevent & Meltem Dayoglu, 2005. "The Effect of Squatter Housing on Income Distribution in Urban Turkey," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 42(1), pages 31-45, January.
    5. Jos Van Ommeren, 2003. "The Unemployed Individual's Marginal Willingness to Pay for the Remaining Entitlement Period," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 17(2), pages 271-283, June.
    6. Bruno, Bosco & Ambra, Poggi, 2016. "Government effectiveness, middle class and poverty in the EU: A dynamic multilevel analysis," Working Papers 344, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, revised 27 Jun 2016.
    7. Brady, David, 2018. "Theories of the Causes of Poverty," SocArXiv jud53, Center for Open Science.
    8. Bea Cantillon & Natascha Van Mechelen, 2013. "Poverty reduction and social security: Cracks in a policy paradigm," Working Papers 1304, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.
    9. Ben Spies-Butcher & Ben Phillips & Troy Henderson, 2020. "Between universalism and targeting: Exploring policy pathways for an Australian Basic Income," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 31(4), pages 502-523, December.
    10. David Brady, 2003. "The Politics of Poverty: Left Political Institutions, the Welfare State and Poverty," LIS Working papers 352, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    11. Stefan Traub & Tim Krieger, 2009. "Wie hat sich die intragenerationale Umverteilung in der staatlichen Säule des Rentensystems verändert? Ein internationaler Vergleich auf Basis von LIS-Daten," LIS Working papers 520, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    12. Daoud, Adel & Johansson, Fredrik, 2019. "Estimating Treatment Heterogeneity of International Monetary Fund Programs on Child Poverty with Generalized Random Forest," SocArXiv awfjt, Center for Open Science.
    13. Jennifer Hook & Becky Pettit, 2002. "The Structure of Women s Employment in Comparative Perspective," LIS Working papers 330, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    14. Lihi Lahat, 2011. "How can leaders’ perceptions guide policy analysis in an era of governance?," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 44(2), pages 135-155, June.
    15. Quinonez, Pablo, 2022. "Social spending and income inequality in Latin America. A panel data approach," MPRA Paper 113538, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    16. Czarnecki, Krzysztof, 2022. "Political party families and student social rights," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 32(3), pages 317-332.
    17. Mesén Vargas, Juliana & Van der Linden, Bruno, 2017. "Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints," IZA Discussion Papers 11034, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    18. Emile Cammeraat, 2020. "The relationship between different social expenditure schemes and poverty, inequality and economic growth," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 73(2), pages 101-123, April.
    19. Jeffrey, Karen, 2020. "Automation and the Future of Work: How Rhetoric Shapes the Response in Policy Preferences," SocArXiv beqra, Center for Open Science.
    20. István Tóth & Michael Förster, 1998. "The Effects of Changing Labor Markets and Social Policies on Income Inequality and Poverty: Hungary and the Other Visegrad Countries Compared," LIS Working papers 177, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:lis:liswps:309. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Piotr Paradowski (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/lisprlu.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.