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{
"time": "2009-11-03 15:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Andrew Jackson (Chief Economist, Canadian Labour Congress)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1686264\" data-originallang=\"en\">The idea that changes in EI rules would significantly increase the number of claimants is a bit of a folk myth among economists. If you go back to the early 1990s, there was a whole raft of studies commissioned by HRSDC on how the EI system functioned. A few of those studies found that in a few parts of the country there were very small impacts on the numbers of unemployed when access to benefits was made more generous, but there is nothing in those studies that would sustain that kind of conclusion about how it would open up. A number of those studies, in fact, showed that there was almost no impact on the number of recipients arising from EI generosity.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1686265\" data-originallang=\"en\">In terms of your proposal, it is really important to underscore that in a time of recession, such as now, there would probably be zero impact, since basically any available job is going to find somebody willing to fill it. At the most, you might say that some people might become unemployed and other people who were unemployed would take the jobs. So I don't think there would be any impact at all, except in an extremely tight job market.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1686266\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'll send you a summary that I prepared on this some time ago, but certainly the studies that were done by Lars Osberg, former president of the Canadian Economics Association, and Shelley Phipps, a very well-known economist at Dalhousie, strongly disputed the notion that there would be a significant impact on unemployment from reducing the entrance requirement.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1686264\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'id\u00e9e que modifier les r\u00e8gles de l'assurance\u2013emploi augmenterait sensiblement le nombre de prestataires est un peu un mythe pour les \u00e9conomistes. Retournez au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1990 lorsque RHDCC avait command\u00e9 une flop\u00e9e d'\u00e9tudes sur le fonctionnement du r\u00e9gime. Quelques-unes avaient montr\u00e9 que, dans quelques r\u00e9gions, faciliter l'acc\u00e8s aux prestations avait certains effets tr\u00e8s petits sur le nombre de ch\u00f4meurs, mais il n'y avait rien dans ces \u00e9tudes qui justifiait ce genre de conclusion d'une hausse massive du nombre de ch\u00f4meurs. De fait, plusieurs des \u00e9tudes avaient montr\u00e9 qu'il n'y avait sur le nombre de prestataires quasiment aucune incidence r\u00e9sultant de la g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9 du r\u00e9gime.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1686265\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne votre proposition, il est vraiment important de souligner qu'il y aurait probablement une incidence z\u00e9ro dans une p\u00e9riode de r\u00e9cession comme celle-ci \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que, fonci\u00e8rement, tout emploi disponible trouverait quelqu'un d\u00e9sirant l'occuper. Au pire, vous pourriez dire que certaines personnes tomberont peut-\u00eatre au ch\u00f4mage et que d'autres qui \u00e9taient sans emploi prendront leur place. Donc, je ne pense pas que cela aurait une incidence quelconque, sauf sur un march\u00e9 du travail extr\u00eamement tendu.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1686266\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vous enverrai un r\u00e9sum\u00e9 que j'ai pr\u00e9par\u00e9 \u00e0 ce sujet il y a quelque temps et je peux vous dire que Lars Osberg, ex-pr\u00e9sident de l'Association canadienne d'\u00e9conomique, et Shelley Phipps, \u00e9conomiste \u00e9minente de Dalhousie, ont produit des \u00e9tudes contredisant fermement l'id\u00e9e que r\u00e9duire le crit\u00e8re d'acc\u00e8s aurait une incidence notable sur le ch\u00f4mage.</p>"
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