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Unemployment and Income Security
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Standing, G.; ILO, Infocus Programme on Socio-Economic Security
International Labour Office
2000
38
Summary (English)
In industrialized countries, unemployment insurance benefits now reach only a minority of the unemployed. The drift to means-tested assistance and the lack of benefits altogether for a substantial proportion of the unemployed has reflected higher unemployment, tighter conditions for entitlement and a process of implicit disentitlement due to the trend away from regular, full-time employment. As a result, once more, to be unemployed is usually to face substantial and growing economic insecurity.
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Discussion paper on the Follow-up to the World Summit on Social Development.