Social Protection and New Forms of Work: Expansion of Unemployment Insurance Benefits’ Coverage in Estonia

Gaabriel Tavits

Social Protection and New Forms of Work: Expansion of Unemployment Insurance Benefits’ Coverage in Estonia

Publication date: 2021

Studies on Labour Law and Social Policy, Volume 28 (2021), Volume 28 Issue 1, pp. 61 - 72

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444654SPP.21.006.13200

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Social Protection and New Forms of Work: Expansion of Unemployment Insurance Benefits’ Coverage in Estonia

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Ensuring social protection for people having lost their jobs is an important part of the social protection system. Although health insurance and pension insurance have traditionally been the most important social protection systems, then social guarantees (both passive and active measures) for the unemployed cannot be underestimated in the changed forms of employment. New forms of work necessitate attention to whether and how people working under new forms of employment, e.g. platform workers, can register as unemployed and whether short-term employment may worsen their standing compared to other unemployed. This article analyses the Estonian social protection system for the unemployed and the planned changes in connection with platform work.

ASJC: 3308, JEL: K31

Keywords

bezrobotny, świadczenia z ubezpieczenia dla bezrobotnych, platforma zatrudnienia, usługi i świadczenia rynku pracy; unemployed, unemployment insurance benefits, platform workers, labour market services and benefits

unemployed, unemployment insurance benefits, platform workers, labour market services and benefits

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Information: Studies on Labour Law and Social Policy, Volume 28 (2021), Volume 28 Issue 1, pp. 61 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25444654SPP.21.006.13200

Article type: Original article

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Social Protection and New Forms of Work: Expansion of Unemployment Insurance Benefits’ Coverage in Estonia

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Social Protection and New Forms of Work: Expansion of Unemployment Insurance Benefits’ Coverage in Estonia

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Gaabriel Tavits

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4715-7972

University of Tartu, Estonia

Published at: 2021

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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