Unemployment Replacement Rates Dataset Among 34 Welfare States, 1971-2009: An Update, Extension and Modification of the Scruggs' Welfare State Entitlements Data Set

Abstract

This data set provides data on unemployment benefit schemes in 34 welfare states.

Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments

“…17 The percentages that we mention have been derived from the EU-SILC database by Dol and Neuteboom (2009). 18 Data are available from Van Vliet and Caminada (2012).…”

Social Assistance Benefits and European Coordination

“…This measure is defined as the ratio of the net benefit level to the net average production worker wage. As such, this minimum income replacement rate is constructed in a similar way as, and so comparable to, unemployment benefit replacement rates (Allan and Scruggs, 2004;Van Vliet and Caminada, 2012). However, it should be noted that the interpretation of the term minimum income replacement rate is slightly different from the unemployment replacement rate, although they share the same denominator.…”

Flexicurity in the European Union: Flexibility for Outsiders, Security for Insiders

“…Second, gross replacement rates only represent unemployment benefits instead of all the benefits unemployed people are entitled to, such as family benefits. Therefore, we also use an indicator that takes these shortcomings into account: the net unemployment replacement rate, taken from Van Vliet and Caminada (2012) who updated Scruggs' (2005) Welfare State Entitlements Data Set. The net unemployment replacement rate is the ratio of the net income from unemployment benefits to the net income from work.…”

“…In the empirical part of the paper, section 4, labour market policies will be compared across countries and over time. The recent publication of new data on labour market policies by the OECD (2012) and by Van Vliet and Caminada (2012) enables us to examine whether countries have started to adopt flexicurity policies since the beginning of the 21 st century. Building on the comparative political economy literature on labour market policy reform, the differences in labour market policies concerning insiders and outsiders are analysed.…”

“…The differences in the levels of the APW and the AW can be significant for individual countries. Source: Unemployment replacement rates dataset (Van Vliet and Caminada, 2012); and own calculations.…”