Designing fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits The case of Belgium

This note focuses on the design of fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits, with a specific focus on Belgium, a country in which the design of the unemployment benefits system has become the subject of an intense policy debate in recent years. After taking stock of the most recent literature an...

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Main Author: Hijzen, Alexander
Other Authors: Salvatori, Andrea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2020
Series:OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
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