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Comparing Formal Unemployment Compensation Systems in 15 OECD C ountries
Author(s) -
Ozkan Umut Riza
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/spol.12010
Subject(s) - unemployment , redundancy (engineering) , welfare state , welfare , economics , argument (complex analysis) , compensation (psychology) , labour economics , political science , economic growth , market economy , law , psychology , engineering , medicine , politics , reliability engineering , psychoanalysis
This study contributes to the welfare regime literature by analyzing unemployment compensation programmes – unemployment insurance ( UI )/assistance ( UA ) programmes and redundancy pay schemes – of welfare state/occupational welfare regimes. It covers 15 countries of the O rganisation for E conomic C o‐operation and D evelopment ( OECD ) selected from S outhern E uropean, L iberal, C ontinental‐corporatist and S ocial D emocratic country clusters. In contrast to the common argument that S outhern E uropean countries have underdeveloped formal unemployment compensation systems, this study argues that they (especially in S pain, P ortugal, and to some extent Italy) are comparable in strength to those in C ontinental‐corporatist countries if occupational welfare programmes – notably redundancy pay – are considered alongside welfare state programmes for unemployment protection. The study also outlines the characteristics of redundancy pay schemes in the four country clusters and shows how different redundancy pay schemes are linked to UI / UA schemes in these clusters.