[lbo-talk] Re: Insured unemployment

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Aug 10 15:12:39 PDT 2004


On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:


>>> About 42% of the officially unemployed are drawing benefits.
>>
>> So a majority of workers fall through the cracks in monetary terms?
>
> Yup. In the early 70s, about 62% of the unemployed were drawing
> benefits; ever since the early 1980s, it's averaged in the low 40s.

So even in our welfare state heyday our unemployment benefits sucked?

Any idea what the comparable figures would be for Germany or France?

So does this mean that the majority of the umemployed at any given time are long-term, structural unemployed?

Michael



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