Making EI work : research from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force /
Making employment insurance work.
edited by Keith Banting and Jon Medow.
- Kingston, Ont. : Queen's University, School of Policy Studies ; (c)2012. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (x, 476 pages :) illustrations.
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- Queen's policy studies series. .
Includes bibliographical references.
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Editors and Contributors""; ""Chapter 1, Introduction: Debating Employment Insurance""; ""Section I: Challenges Facing Coverage and Access to Benefits""; ""Chapter 2, Employment Insurance in the New World of Work""; ""Chapter 3, The Challenge of Expanding EI Coverage""; ""Chapter 4, The Design of Employment Insurance in a Federation""; ""Chapter 5, Fixing the Hole in EI: Temporary Income Assistance for the Unemployed"" ""Chapter 6, Reforming EI Special Benefits: Exploring Alternative Financing and Delivery Options""""Chapter 7, Employment Insurance: A Macroeconomic Comparison with Other Income-Support Initiatives""; ""Section II: Regional Benefits versus a National Program""; ""Chapter 8, The Impact of Regionally Differentiated Entitlement to EI on Charter-Protected Canadians""; ""Chapter 9, The Regionalized Aspects of EI and Internal Migration in Canada""; ""Section III: Challenges Facing Long-Term and Displaced Workers"" ""Chapter 10, The Income Sources for Long-Term Workers Who Exhaust Employment Insurance Benefits""""Chapter 11, The Effectiveness of Training for Displaced Workers with Long Prior Job Tenure""; ""Chapter 12, Unemployment Compensation and Adjustment Assistance for Displaced Workers: Policy Options for Canada""; ""Section IV: Federalism and Governance Challenges""; ""Chapter 13, Adult Training for the 21st Century: EI Reform, Decentralization and Workforce Development in Canada""; ""Chapter 14, Asymmetry at Work: Quebec�s Distinct Implementation of Programs for the Unemployed""
"Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Making EI Work is the result of a panel of distinguished scholars gathered by the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, and future directions of EI. The authors identify the strengths and weaknesses of the system, and consider how it could be improved to better and more fairly support those in need. They make suggestions for facilitating a more efficient Canadian labour market, and meeting the human capital requirements of a dynamic economy for the present and the foreseeable future. The chapters that comprise Making EI Work informed the task force's final recommendations, and form an engaging dialogue that makes the case for, and defines the parameters of, a reformed support system for Canada's unemployed."--Publisher's website.