Employment Insurance In Canada Electronic Resource Recent Trends And Policy Changes

Author : Lin, Zhengxi
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ISBN 13 : 9780660176062
Total Pages : 17 pages
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Download or read book Employment Insurance in Canada [electronic Resource] : Recent Trends and Policy Changes written by Lin, Zhengxi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper highlights recent trends in employment insurance (formerly unemployment insurance). It also provides a review of the historic evolution of the employment insurance program. The following summarizes the main results. 1. The EI system has turned from large deficits prior to 1993, to nearly balancing the books in that year, and further to substantial surpluses ever since. This is attributable to many factors. Premium contributions collected from employees and employers have been stable at a historically high level since 1994 largely thanks to the recovery of the economy. On the other hand, benefit payouts have steadily declined since 1993 mainly due to a falling number of beneficiaries since 1993, benefit rate reduction from 60% to 57% in 1993 and further to 55% in 1994 except for low income claimants with dependents (back up 60%). 2. The declining number of beneficiaries is in turn attributable to many factors. Unemployment as well as the unemployment rate has been falling since 1993 (there was a slight increase in 1996). Characteristics of the unemployed may have changed. There has also been a series of significant changes in policy parameters regarding benefit eligibility since 1990. 3. Over the course of its nearly sixty years of existence, the EI system has undergone numerous changes. Most significantly, the 1971 UI Act which widely liberalized the pre-1971 system; a series of subsequent fine-tuning and tightening-up; and the abolishment of minimum hours/earnings coverage requirements (all employees are now covered), as well as the name change to "employment insurance" from "unemployment insurance".

Author : Kerr, Kevin B
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Total Pages : 11 pages
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Download or read book Employment Insurance : Regular Beneficiary Trends written by Kerr, Kevin B and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 39 pages
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Download or read book The Impact of Employment Insurance on New-entrants and Re-entrant Workers: written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the impact of the change from Unemployment Insurance (UI) to Employment Insurance (EI) on new & re-entrant (NERE) workers. The focus is on two aspects of the change which are particularly relevant to the NERE group: an increase in eligibility condition and a switch from a weeks-based system for determining eligibility in UI to an hours-based system in EI. The study first establishes the percentage of workers with job separations who are in the NERE group and the characteristics of NERE workers (age group, gender, marital & family status, province, education & income level, wage earned). It then examines the change in accessibility to benefits brought about by the switch from UI to EI. It is hypothesized that young workers seeking their first job and mothers returning to the labour market might constitute two important NERE categories, and the study investigates whether this is so and assesses the effects of the change for those two groups.

Author : Keith Banting
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 1553393287
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making EI Work written by Keith Banting and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Making EI Work is the result of a panel of distinguished scholars gathered by the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, and future directions of EI. The authors identify the strengths and weaknesses of the system, and consider how it could be improved to better and more fairly support those in need. They make suggestions for facilitating a more efficient Canadian labour market, and meeting the human capital requirements of a dynamic economy for the present and the foreseeable future. The chapters that comprise Making EI Work informed the task force's final recommendations, and form an engaging dialogue that makes the case for, and defines the parameters of, a reformed support system for Canada's unemployed. Contributors include Ken Battle (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), Robin Boadway (Queen's University), Allison Bramwell (University of Toronto), Sujit Choudhry (New York University School of Law), Kathleen M. Day (University of Ottawa), Ross Finnie (University of Ottawa), Jean-Denis Garon (Queen's University), David Gray (University of Ottawa), Morley Gunderson (University of Toronto), Ian Irvine (Concordia University), Stephen Jones (McMaster University), Thomas R. Klassen (York University), Michael Mendelson (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), Alain Noël (Université de Montréal), Michael Pal (University of Toronto Faculty of Law), W. Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia), William Scarth (McMaster University), Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa), Leah F. Vosko (York University), Stanley L. Winer (Carleton University), Donna E. Wood (University of Victoria), and Yan Zhang (Statistics Canada).

Author : Shawn de Raaf
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Employment Insurance Claim Patterns written by Shawn de Raaf and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed within the context of a discussion of the principles underlying the present-day EI program, this research leads the authors to identify policy options that are worth exploring further in order to make EI more responsive to the realities of today's labour market, while at the same time addressing potential disincentives and inequities in the current system. [...] This study shows that the relationship between EI and the decision to migrate is complex and depends on individuals' degree of attachment to the labour market, since only those who work few weeks per year were found to be more likely to move following the tightening of the EI program in the mid-1990s. [...] This overhaul took the form of the Employment Insurance (EI) program introduced in 1996 to bring the program up-to-pace with changes in the economy.6 Along with a requirement to reduce program costs, program designers endeavoured "to ensure that the system was responsive to the realities of today's labour market and to remove disincentives and inequities in the system" (HRDC, 1998b, p. i). [...] The 1996 reform represented the culmination of a series of modifications in the mid- 1990s that reduced the generosity of the program. [...] Another important research element was the series of in-depth evaluation studies sponsored by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) in the late 1990s, which provided important lessons in the ongoing refinement of the program.7 The subject matter of these studies was wide-ranging, from the impact of EI's switch to an hours-based system to the implementation of income supplements for.

Author : Canada. Human Resources Development Canada
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Employment Insurance written by Canada. Human Resources Development Canada and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Exploring the Impact of Recent Changes to Employment Insurance and Ways to Improve Access to the Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF RECENT CHANGES TO EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND WAYS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO THE PROGRAM Report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Bryan May Chair JUNE 2016 42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons SPEAKER'S PERMISSION Reproduction of the pr [...] Also available on the Parliament of Canada Web Site at the following address: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF RECENT CHANGES TO EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND WAYS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO THE PROGRAM Report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Bryan May Chair JUNE 2016 42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION STANDING COMM [...] On 24 February 2016, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (the Committee) adopted the following motion: That the Committee conduct, as its first priority, a study of the impact of recent reforms to the Employment Insurance Program and to Employment Insurance appeals; that the study include an examinati [...] Therefore, the Committee puts forward the following recommendation: RECOMMENDATION 2 The Committee recommends that the federal government take immediate action to eliminate the eligibility requirement of 910 hours of insurable employment for new entrants and re-entrants to the labour market. [...] In 2016, the maximum annual insurable amount is $50,800, which means a claimant could receive up to $537 a week.64 Prior to 2013, the weekly benefit rate was calculated by dividing total insurable earnings during the 26-week period preceding the establishment of the claim by the greater of the number of weeks of work in this period or by the "minimum divisor," which varied between 14 and 22, depen.

Author : Sage Research Corporation
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Download or read book Employment Insurance Electronic Services Pamphlet and Calendar Focus Groups : Final Report written by Sage Research Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernie Stokes
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Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book Canada's Unemployment Insurance Program as an Economic Stabilizer written by Ernie Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780662319894
Total Pages : 99 pages
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Download or read book Employment Insurance, 2001 Monitoring and Assessment Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth in a series of annual reports that analyze the impact of the 1996 Employment Insurance reform on income benefits. It presents a detailed analysis of what is known so far about these impacts as well as the new employment benefits & support measures, and compares results for 2000/01 & 1999/2000. In this context, trends for the periods between 1995/96 and 1999/2000 as identified in the previous year's report are also discussed. In addition, the report makes a preliminary examination of what is known about the recent changes to Employment Insurance made under Bill C-2 and the enhancement to parental benefits. Annexes include a legislative history, benefits & support measures data tables, and community employment profiles.