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How have unemployment benefits varied across time?
by util 16y ago
How have unemployment benefits varied across time?
- ugh 16y agoI didn’t find much data with a quick search, but I found numbers from 1998 to 2007[1]. There is a increase of the average from 671€ to 765€. That’s 94€ in ten years, that can’t possibly be more than inflation (2% inflation comes out to about 10€ per year). (Those are, by the way, numbers for the short term unemployment benefits, you get those only for a limited time. There are longer term unemployment benefits.) [1] http://www.sozialpolitik-aktuell.de/tl_files/sozialpolitik-aktuell/_Politikfelder/Arbeitsmarkt/Datensammlung/PDF-Dateien/tabIV35a.pdf http://www.sozialpolitik-aktuell.de/tl_files/sozialpolitik-a... [PDF] – edit: I just decided to do some procrastination and calculate how high the current average unemployment benefit should be, given the inflation between 1998 and 2007. Turns out they should get 770€. So if you factor in inflation the unemployed got on average less in 2007 than in 1998. Not much less, though – I guess there is some regulatory mechanism which adjusts benefits based on inflation. That would explain the close fit.