Unemployment Insurance Review

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a lasting piece of the Social Security Act which was enacted in 1935. But like most things that are over 80 years old, it occasionally needs maintenance to keep it operating smoothly while keeping up with the changing demands placed upon it. However, the UI system has been ignored by policymakers for decades and, say the authors, it is broken, out of date, and badly in need of repair. Stephen A. Wandner pulls together a group of UI researchers, each with decades of experience, who describe the weaknesses in the current system and propose policy reforms that they say would modernize the system and prepare us for the next recession.

Comparison of unemployment benefit, with particular reference to capitalist and socialist developed countries - comments on labour legislation and ILO Conventions providing for such insurance, and deals with systems, financing and administration thereof, and training and labour mobility to promote employment. Bibliography pp. 265 to 267, references and statistical tables.

Historical review and analysis of unemployment benefit in the USA - includes comment on attempts at legislation, objectives, coverage, benefits (including their duration), financing, the relationship thereof to employment services, etc. Bibliography pp. 511 to 524.