• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: How should job displacement wage losses be insured? : wage losses upon re-employment can seriously harm long-tenured displaced workers if they are not properly insured
  • Contributor: Parsons, Donald O. [Author]
  • Published: Bonn: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), June 2018
  • Published in: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: IZA world of labor ; 2018,0004,46
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 10 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.15185/izawol.446
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  • Keywords: wage insurance ; job displacement ; severance pay ; Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
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  • Description: Job displacement represents a serious earnings risk to long-tenured workers through lower re-employment wages, and these losses may persist for many years. Moreover, this risk is often poorly insured, although not for a lack of policy interest. To reduce this risk, most countries mandate scheduled wage insurance (severance pay), and it is voluntarily provided in others. Actual-loss wage insurance is uncommon, although perceived difficulties may be overplayed. Both approaches offer the hope of greater consumption smoothing, with actual-loss plans carrying greater promise.
  • Access State: Open Access