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Private insurance is also available, mainly through professional organizations, to provide income related compensation that otherwise exceeds the ceiling of the scheme. In facts, also a form of intra-fund solidarity can be traced up. The Swedish welfare state and its “active labour market policies” , even if they came out quite intact from the deep recession of the 1990s, have to face a demand for labour still under the level of the 1980s. In the Great Recession, the “moral hazard” issue of whether unemployment insurance—and specifically extending benefits past the maximum 99 weeks—significantly encourages unemployment by discouraging workers from finding and taking jobs, has been expressed by Republican legislators.

Each Thursday, the Department of Labor issues the Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report.[41] Its headline number is the seasonally adjusted estimate for the initial claims for unemployment for the previous week in the United States. An alternative to unemployment insurance intended to reduce the moral hazard costs would introduce mandated individual saving accounts for workers to draw on after being laid off. There are special rates for those with partners and/or children.

During the first 200 days the unemployed will receive 80 percent of his or her normal income during the last 12 months. This leads to the rationale that if government could solve either problem that government intervention would increase efficiency.

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