unemployment benefit | unemployment compensation

unemployment compensation insurance [ unemployment compensation benefits ]

to pay unemployment benefit

Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation

unemployment [ frictional unemployment | rate of unemployment | unemployment level ]

concealed unemployment | disguised unemployment | hidden unemployment

indemnify and hold harmless [ indemnify and save harmless | indemnify and keep harmless | save harmless and keep indemnified ]

disguised unemployment | hidden unemployment | concealed unemployment | fictitious unemployment

hidden unemployment | disguised unemployment

In fact, over the last two years, there has been a strong demand for measures to support the reallocation of resources between firms and occupations. These measures include changes in employment protection legislation and business practices related to corporate restructuring, as well as appropriate training and activation policies that, together with suitably designed unemployment benefit systems, help displaced workers towards different jobs and professions.

7. Calls on the Commission to draw up recommendations on the feasibility of defining a common level of unemployment allowance in the EU in relation with the previous wages of the unemployed person;

In the Employment Package the Commission also underlined that fostering entrepreneurial mind-sets, making start-up support services and microfinance more available, and establishing schemes for converting unemployment benefits into start-up grants would play an important role, also for young people.

7. Stresses the fact that, despite unemployment rates for men and women being comparable, the crisis affects women differently; points out that working conditions for women have become considerably more insecure, especially with the increasing prevalence of atypical forms of contract, and that women’s incomes have fallen significantly thanks to a number of factors, including the persistent wage gap (nearly 17 %) between men and women and the resultant inequality in their respective levels of unemployment benefit, the rise in compulsory part-time working, and the rise in the number of temporary or fixed-term jobs to the detriment of more ...[+++] stable employment; whereas with the persistent gender pay gap and the resultant inequality in unemployment benefit levels, the crisis has worsened women's situation in the labour market; points out that the experience of previous crises shows that the male employment rate generally recovers more quickly than that for women;