0 money that the government pays to unemployed people who are looking for a job
1 payments made by a government to a person who has lost his or her job
So far, early-retirement benefits have generally been higher than disability and unemployment benefits.
Unemployment benefits also became less generous in relation to incomes in work.
Unemployment benefits are now part of taxable income.
Additionally, unemployment benefits may be targeted at quite different age groups across countries and across time.
The unemployed wished for more financing for unemployment benefits and social assistance and single parents claimed more financing of child benefits and family benefits.
High income-earners criticised the level of unemployment benefits and social assistance substantively less than low-income earners.
Contrasting social norms have long been suspected of also playing a fundamental role in the evolution of social benefits, and notably unemployment benefits.
But there is considerable crossnational variation in the extent to which claimants' unemployment benefits are reduced or refused for reasons of 'administrative infractions', beyond that.
