Paying People Not to Work: The Unemployment Compensation System

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Paying People Not to Work: The Unemployment Compensation System

Studies | Welfare

No. 133
Friday, July 01, 1988
by Raymond P. Thorne

The Unemployment Compensation system encourages employeers to lay off their employees and discourages the unemployed from finding new jobs.

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