IS giving unemployment allowances leading to more unemployment?

Question

Do you think that giving unemployment allowances lead to more unemployment? Please vote for the following options
a. It leads to more unemployment
b. It does not lead to more unemployment
c. Unemployment allowances programme should be improved

Answer 1

Both b and c. As it stands in the U.S., the unemployment system does not lead to more unemployment because a person has to have become unemployed through no fault of their own. If they quit or were fired for just cause, they are ineligible for benefits. The program does need improvement, however. Paperwork and bureaucracy can slow the process unbearably and there needs to be further counseling and reemployment strategies.

Answer 2

Some of us will take extra time off between jobs because we have enough income from unemployment. I took a few months off in 1989 and a few in 2000. After many years on a job with high stress and no time for vacations it was easy to decide to not look right away. You can collect unemployment and live on it if you have other income like rental income so I could even save money unemployed. Now this last job I left to retire so no unemployment.

Answer 3

In my country, at least, professionally-managed studies have shown that unemployment insurance does not lead recipients to become too lazy to work - an accusation frequently flung, along with other feces, by the occupants on the Right (politically) sides of the House and Senate. When the beeb shows Brit right-wingers parroting the same nonsense, my reaction is "Oh, bugger off; you don't know what you're talking about!"

Answer 4

I would think so, but you can only get unemployment if you apply for it and if you don't have that much money. I always forgot to apply for it. I think unemployment allowance would be like saying to the people, hear since you can't find work and you would like to be lazy, please sit on my bottom and I'll pay for you. I don't know think it should be improved at all. Um, might have to think about it in my mind and come up with a finally answer.

Answer 5

a.

It definitely will lead to more unemployment. Once, people get the idea that government is supporting them, then they would lose all interest in working hard and earn there livelihood. This would lead to more unemployment, not because there ain't any jobs, but because people will become too dependant on the goverment.

Answer 6

well i would say c.

Suppose YOU lose your job what happens until you find a new one?

note that a and b cannot happen in real life.
if you leave your job on purpose someone else will get it and be employed.

Its not the low demand on jobs that leads to unemloyment (are wages rising over there???) but rather the short supply of jobs.

Answer 7

i am pending for 100 a week,i am older i worked seasonal and a temp job to qualify many people can not get even min wage jobs due to discrimination and the choice of male or female,have you seen any older male workers in jobs in waiters or food workers , or retauraunts no unless your a manager,i just saw a 18 yo girl new in buirgwer king

Answer 8

C----it is needed by a lot of hard working Americans, to keep their family going between jobs.The field workers, oil field workers,refinery workers,and ship yard workers all build up the allowance to use between jobs.It is a positive income for tight times..It is a plus for hard times.....

Answer 9

B.

Unemployement insurance, in most cases, only gives 60% of actual wages. I don't think people purposely lose their jobs so they can get unemployment.

Answer 10

When I became unemployed due to cutbacks and layoffs, ie: not because of my performance. I was given the equivalent of $8.00 per hour per week for six months. Oh yeah I rode that gravy train for as long as possible!