Experience-Rating Employment Insurance In Canada
This working paper reviews both the theoretical and empirical literature on experience-rating unemployment insurance programs. In reviewing the existing research, the paper identifies a number of lessons learned to determine whether an experience-rated Employment Insurance (EI) program might, by modifying the behaviour of Canadian firms and workers, address the magnitude of subsidies some firms receive from the program year after year or lessen the extent to which claimants frequently rely on EI benefits.
Project Details
Published: May 2005
Capability: Policy Research
Policy Area: Income Security
Population: EI Recipients
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