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Unequal access : Making sense of EI eligibility rules and how to improve them

10 May 2016

That said, in the medium-term, the broader design of the social Among these three measures, the B/U ratio is the safety net needs a thorough rethink, given the subject of the most public discussion, as reflected in evolution of the labour market. [...] On the other hand, the hours- around 40 percent of the drop can be attributed based measure worked against the interests of part- to major structural changes in the labour market time workers with short workweeks (Bédard and that generated a change in the composition of Fortin 2015).3 Individuals working long hours for the unemployed (HRDC 1998). [...] There was a part of the year and who were inactive for the rest of significant increase in the share of the “unemployed the year tended to see eligibility improve, while those population without employment activity in the working short hours for most of the year tended to past 12 months,” increasing from 20.8 percent in see eligibility erode. [...] Put simply, the numerator of the B/U ratio is incompatible with the Collapse of the B/U Ratio denominator, since the number of EI recipients in the numerator includes some individuals who are The timing of the cuts to UI/EI benefits, which neither unemployed nor in the labour force – i.e., occurred during the economic downturn of the workers in seasonal industries who are collecting 1990s, coincid [...] The remaining steps of the accounting process consist of “reverse triages” in the sense that workers who are not included in the original stock of unemployed workers (i.e., in the Box 1 “U” group) are added, expanding the EI beneficiary total (counted in the numerator).
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Authors

Gray, David, Busby, Colin

ISBN
9780888069733
Pages
24
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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