Which fiscal union for the euro area? Bruegel Policy Contribution ISSUE 2016/05, February 2016

At the current level of political and societal integration, a large federal budget is unrealistic in the euro area. The authors make three recommendations that would lead national fiscal policies to be more stabilising with respect to the economic cycle, while achieving long-term sustainability. They also recommend a move towards a European unemployment insurance scheme targeted at ‘large’ shocks, and a minimum set of labour-market harmonisation criteria.

Automatic Fiscal Stabiliser: Make it happen! EPC Discussion Paper, 2 May 2016

The eurozone crisis triggered a whole new series of innovations in EU economic governance in order to make the Union more resilient for the next economic downswing. But one of the more persistent issues are the socio-economic divergences between member states, identified by the Five Presidents’ Report as a major problem in the functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Debates took place in recent years about automatic stabilisers, and more specifically about the possibility of introducing an unemployment insurance within the EMU. While the need for some form of fiscal risk-sharing has become a dominant view in expert circles, there has been much less progress among the main political parties and stakeholders. In this study, Regula Hess and László Andor analyse the political feasibility of the adoption of an automatic fiscal stabiliser (AFS) for the eurozone by evaluating actors’ positions towards three distinctive proposals: 1) cyclical shock insurance, 2) reinsurance, 3) a European basic unemployment insurance; they included an empirical case study of France and Germany as the most relevant players within the intergovernmental bargaining constellation. Although the authors realise the current political context makes the adoption of an AFS improbable, Hess and Andor encourage stakeholders to further pursue the discussion, as windows of opportunities can open at any time, and even give some suggestions on what the parameters of the most feasible proposal might be.

Principles underlying labor-dispute disqualification,

"Prepared at the request of the Bureau of Employment Security by Marsile J. Hughes of the Illinois Division of Placement and Unemployment Compensation." -- Foreword.

Review of experience rating, 1949.

"July 1950."

An Evaluation of the feasibility of a substate area extended benefit program : final report.

"This report was prepared for the Unemployment Insurance Service, U.S. Department of Labor under Contract Number 99-7-0805-04-138-01 with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. The authors of this report are John L. Czajka, Sharon K. Long and Walter Nicholson ..."

Reemployment services to unemployed workers having difficulty becoming reemployed /

Includes bibliographical references.

An evaluation of the federal supplemental compensation program /

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research.

Annual report /

Description based on: 3rd (1939).

Annual report of the Department of Employment Security of West Virginia.

Report year ends June 30.

UI research exchange.

Some years not published; v. for <1990-> also called: <8th-> issue.

Annual report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor market review.

Title from cover.

Covered employment and wages by county and industry.

Title from cover.

Economic security act.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor market and employment security.

Not issued Oct.-Nov. 1940.