01936nam a22001577a 4500 513935 513935 200918b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Chang, Y. 17823 Unequal social protection under the federalist system: three unemployment insurance approaches in the United States, 2007–2015. Journal of Social Policy 49(1), Jan 2020. p. 189-211 Despite the increased attention paid to federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) schemes after the Great Recession (2007–2009), research examining the policy characteristics and the underlying logic shaping the social protection provided by a federal-state UI system is limited. Integrating the perspectives of policy design theory, comparative welfare politics, and fiscal welfare, this paper examines the unequal social protection under the American UI system during and after the Great Recession. By using model-based cluster analysis and fixed-effect panel regression models, this paper identifies three distinct UI approaches, i.e. the limited social protection approach, the unbalanced social protection approach, and the balanced social protection approach. The policy choices made by those states that follow the three approaches reflect different mixtures of policy logic, including social protection, economic stabilization, work disincentives, and interstate competition. The overall downward trend in social protection signals that the American UI system is under-prepared for the next economic recession, thereby exposing unemployed workers to the risk of economic insecurity. These findings provide implications for future policy designs aiming to strengthen the social protection of the federal-state UI system. - Reproduced Federal-state unemployment insurance, Federal-state relations, Unemployment 17824 Journal of Social Policy EMPLOYMENT - UNITED STATES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 387959 IIPA IIPA 2020-09-18 49(1), Jan 2020. p. 189-211 AR123013 2020-09-18 AR