Unemployment Benefits, Active Labor Market Policies, and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from New Global Data (English)

Using a novel data, this paper examines unemployment benefits and active labor market policies across 191 countries in 2019-2020 and assesses their linkages with labor market outcomes. In 2019, 48 percent of countries had unemployment benefit schemes and 85 percent adopted active labor market policies. While both policies correlate with a country's income level, unemployment benefits are scarce in low-income countries, with only 10 percent having...
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Ulku,Hulya; Georgieva,Dorina Peteva.

Unemployment Benefits, Active Labor Market Policies, and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from New Global Data (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10027; Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP) Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099724404272240061

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