The Strange Case of British Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefit

Bibliographic Data

ID2111888
AuthorsJohn Micklewright (corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume18
Issue4
Pages527-548
Publication date1989-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400001847
OpenAlexW2162798221
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited17

The abolition in 1982 of the Earnings-Related Supplement (ERS) to unemployment benefit, which had been introduced in 1966, left the UK with no element of income support for the unemployed linked to previous earnings. The ERS scheme represents an important case study of economic and social policy but it has been little researched hitherto. The paper examines the history of ERS, showing how the original legislation and subsequent development produced a benefit that bore little relation to schemes in other countries. Unpublished administrative data on the receipt of ERS are used to help document the scheme's failings, and the paper closes by placing ERS within the context of the development of unemployment insurance in Britain

Context (archaeology) · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Element (criminal law) · Geography · Labour economics · Legislation · Political science · Receipt · Unemployment · Accounting · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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