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March 17, 2009, 3:35 pm
The Best Places to Be Laid Off
By Catherine Rampell
Over at Foreign Policy, Annie Lowrey has compiled a list of the best places to lose your job, at least in social-safety-net terms.
The winner is Denmark, where job-losers can receive up to 90 percent of their prior earnings for as long as 48 months. The other Scandinavian countries have benefits that are almost as good, followed by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland (which will even subsidize your wages if you find a new job that pays less than two-thirds of the salary you had lost), France and Japan.
As for debates about whether such generous benefits discourage people from finding new work, Switzerland seems to provide one counterexample: Despite its bounteous benefits, the country has low levels of unemployment and even underemployment, Ms. Lowrey writes.
March 17, 2009, 3:35 pm
The Best Places to Be Laid Off
By Catherine Rampell
Over at Foreign Policy, Annie Lowrey has compiled a list of the best places to lose your job, at least in social-safety-net terms.
The winner is Denmark, where job-losers can receive up to 90 percent of their prior earnings for as long as 48 months. The other Scandinavian countries have benefits that are almost as good, followed by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland (which will even subsidize your wages if you find a new job that pays less than two-thirds of the salary you had lost), France and Japan.
As for debates about whether such generous benefits discourage people from finding new work, Switzerland seems to provide one counterexample: Despite its bounteous benefits, the country has low levels of unemployment and even underemployment, Ms. Lowrey writes.
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