Design of a European unemployment benefit scheme
Beblavy, Miroslav ; Lenaerts, Karolien ; Maselli, Ilaria
European Centre for Political Studies, Brussels
CEPS - Brussels
2017
140 p.
EU law ; statistics ; unemployment benefit
CEPS Research Report
2017/04
Unemployment
English
Bibliogr.
"In this extensive report, we assess how a European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS) could be designed. To this end, we examine 18 EUBS variants, 4 equivalent and 14 genuine schemes, and their key features. Some of these features can also be found in national unemployment benefit schemes, while others are more related to the EUBS context. We analyse the design of a common EUBS in previous literature and combine these insights with results for the legal and operational options as well as constraints and the economic value added obtained as part of our study on the “Feasibility and Added Value of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme”. All this information is integrated into a summary fiche for each of the 18 EUBS variants studied. In addition, the report deals with a range of policy issues including convergence, minimum requirements and accession criteria."
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