The 'worthy' unemployed: societal stratification and unemployment insurance programs in China and the United States

Lucy A. Williams, Northeastern University School of Law
Margaret Y. K. Woo, Northeastern University School of Law

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Originally published in Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 33, pp. 457-519, 1995

Abstract

This is a comparative study of the unemployment compensation schemes in China and in the U.S. The article emphasizes how the structure of unemployment scheme can add to or detract from the view of the unemployed as “worthy” or “unworthy.”