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Unemployment insurance in the U.S. and Europe, 1973-83
Beatrice G. Reubens
Formerly a senior research associate at the Conservation of
Human Resources, Columbia University, is an international economic consultant
In general, comparisons show rising costs, changes in eligibility and benefits, possible disincentives to work, and low replacement rations for unemployed; some industrial countries have altered their unemployment insurance provisions with these problems in mind. This article compares the unemployment insurance programs of the United States and five western European countries — Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden.
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Footnotes
1 While this article was in preparation, the
Court agreed to hear arguments in two more labor cases: Pension benefit Guar. Corp. v.
LTV Corp., 875 F.2d 1008 (2d Cir.), cert. granted, 58 U.S.L.W. 3288 (U.S.
Oct. 30 1989) (No. 89-390) (raising complicated bankruptcy, labor, and pension issues);
and Yellow Freight Sys., Inc. v. Donnelly, 874 F.2d 402 (7th Cir.), cert.
granted, 58 U.S.L.W. 3304 (U.S. Oct. 30, 1989) (No. 89-431) (raising the issue of
whether Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction to hear cases under Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964).
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