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The Senate passed the measure 98-0 on November 4, 2009, with an amendment designating the bill the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009. [3] The bill, as passed by the Senate, would give an extra 20 weeks of unemployment benefits to workers in states with unemployment rates over 8.5 percent, but would also give an extra 14 ...
Unemployment in Russia. The employment rate of the Russian population has been quite high since the end of the Soviet era, when the birth rate fell and the number of women involved in the economy rose sharply. After the labor market crisis during the shock therapy of the 1990s, renewed economic growth and a decline in the economically active ...
China's labor market was highly regulated and dominated by state-owned enterprises, with an average unemployment rate of 3.7 per cent between 1988 and 1995, but this rose sharply after numerous lay-offs between 1995 and 2002, reaching an average unemployment rate of 9.5 per cent between 2002 and 2009. These changes had the greatest impact on ...
The 1990s saw a decade of unemployment benefit insurance reform in Denmark. Government policy addressing employment security however, remained largely unchanged. Prior to the early 1990s reforms, Danish citizens were entitled to 2.5 years of unemployment benefits given they remained employed for 26 weeks out of the previous 3 years.
European unemployment insurance (also known as a European unemployment benefit scheme - EUBS) is a proposed transfer system for the Eurozone that is intended to provide macroeconomic stabilization. Such a system would drain purchasing power from booming economies, preventing overheating while bolstering economies which experience a recession .
Economic stagnation. Employment discrimination. Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988. Employment protection legislation. Employment-to-population ratio. The End of Work. Ethnic penalty. List of European regions by unemployment rate. Eurosclerosis.
In the United States, where government benefit payments are colloquially referred to as "welfare", the welfare trap often indicates that a person is completely dependent on benefits, with little or no hope of self-sufficiency. [2] The welfare trap is also known as the unemployment trap or the poverty trap, with both terms frequently being used ...