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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

Specialty Definition: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

DomainDefinition

Insurance

An insurance under which a person, who is unemployed through no fault of his or her own, is paid weekly benefits based upon his or her past wages in employment covered by state or federal laws. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

Synonyms: Social insurance, Unemployment benefits, Unemployment compensation. (additional references)

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Crosswords: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

English words defined with "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE": Social Security. (references)
Specialty definitions using "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE": appeals board referee, AUDITOR, INTERNALCOMMUNITY WORKERDIRECTOR, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCEEMPLOYMENT-AND-CLAIMS AIDE, extended benefitsliable employerMass layoffPOLICE OFFICER III. (references)

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Modern Usage: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Now listen this is your last week of unemployment insurance, either you kill somebody next week or we're going to have to change your status. (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Reemployment Bonuses in the Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence from Three Field Experiments (reference)

  • Labour Market Policy and Unemployment Insurance (Fief Studies in Labour Markets and Economic Policy) (reference)

  • Federal Supplemental Benefits Program: An Appraisal of Emergency Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits (reference)

  • Work Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance (reference)

  • In search of the scrounger : the administration of Unemployment Insurance in Britain, 1920-1931 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

AuthorQuotation

Ronald Reagan

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

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Non-Fiction Usage: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

In May the ACFTU publicly called upon the Government to devote greater resources to unemployment insurance funds and reemployment projects. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

Denmark has well functioning unemployment insurance and sick pay schemes. (references)

China

Local governments also require enterprise and worker contributions to pension and unemployment insurance funds. (references)

Slovak Rep

Slovak social insurance is compulsory and includes a health allowance, unemployment insurance, and pension insurance. (references)

Political Economy

DENMARK

The government pays most sick leave and unemployment insurance costs. (references)

DENMARK

Employees pay their contribution to unemployment insurance out of their wages, while a large part of unemployment benefits is financed from general revenues. (references)

DENMARK

A general unemployment insurance system in the Faroe Islands has been in force since 1992. Sick pay and maternity pay, as in Denmark, fall under the social security system. (references)

Women

South Africa

For example, the Gender Monitoring and Advocacy Group, an NGO consortium that includes a domestic workers' organization, successfully lobbied for an amendment to proposed unemployment insurance legislation that originally did not cover domestic workers, who are primarily women. (references)

Worker Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

However, they do not have access to unemployment insurance, general disability payments, or low-income supplements. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the Federation, contributions to the Pension, Health insurance, and Unemployment Insurance funds are 7, 5, and 1 percent respectively. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level commission on automation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

Expression using "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE": unemployment insurance fund. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unemployment insurance

762

unemployment insurance california

141

unemployment insurance canada

120

new york state unemployment insurance

78

nj unemployment insurance

42

new jersey unemployment insurance

42

accident sickness unemployment insurance

28

illinois unemployment insurance

26

canadian unemployment insurance

25

colorado unemployment insurance

23

state unemployment insurance

23

kansas unemployment insurance

17

wisconsin unemployment insurance

17

unemployment insurance claim

14

uk unemployment insurance

14

georgia unemployment insurance

9

unemployment insurance eligibility

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

Language Translations for "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

arbejdsloeshedsforsikring (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

werkloosheidsverzekering. (various references)

   

French

  

assurance-chômage, assurance chômage. (various references)

   

German

  

Arbeitslosenversicherung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ασφάλιση κατά της ανεργίας (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund), ασφάλιση ανεργίας, ταμείο ανεργίας (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund). (various references)

   

Italian

  

assicurazione-disoccupazione (unemployment compensation, unemployment fund, unemployment insurance fund). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

雇"保険 , 失業保険 , 失保 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しつぎょうほけ", しつほ, "ようほけ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

employmentunay insuranceay

   

Portuguese

  

seguro desemprego. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

arbetslöshetsförsäkring. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

işsizlik sigortası. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-l-m-m-n-n-n-n-o-p-r-s-t-u-u-y"

-5 letters: incommensurately.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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