Popular posts this week
- Streetcars and light rail services serve different rider markets in American cities.
- Southern primaries, ‘monied nihilists’ in Michigan, and Nevada scraps Obamacare exchange – US state blog round up for 17 – 23 May
- Hundreds of scholars have signed a statement defending the international institutions that Trump has attacked
- Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz
A generous welfare state can help reduce unemployment – if there are good job opportunities for the jobless.
A generous welfare state can help reduce unemployment – if there are good job opportunities for the jobless.
Are state unemployment benefits a safety net or a hammock for the lazy? In new research, Thomas Biegert explores the effects of benefits on job seekers in 20 European countries and the US. He finds that in some countries, generous benefits are linked with high unemployment rates, while in others, the opposite is the case. This difference, he […]