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Essay / The Canadian unemployment insurance system - 742
A healthy unemployment insurance system is the most powerful stabilizer of the economy. However, the current employment insurance program cannot play a significant role in solving the problem of specific groups (for example: male workers, students and immigrants), who are more likely to lose their jobs but less likely to receive employment insurance benefits from the government during the transition period. economic recession.MenTable 1 shows that the unemployment rate of men (8.1%) is much higher than that of women (6.2%) in November 2009. In addition, the percentage change of unemployment of men ( 44.2%) is higher than that of women (33.9%) from November 2009. 2008 to November 2009. Men are more likely to lose their jobs than women in the context of the current financial crisis. This recession hit male-dominated sectors hard, such as construction, finance and manufacturing. However, sectors have held up relatively well in education, healthcare, and services, which will create more jobs for women (Peck: 14). However, Chart 3 on the next page shows that women are more likely to receive employment insurance benefits than men. . Logistic regression shows that the female group is 2.067 times more likely to change compared to the odds of the male comparison group, which can be seen that the female blue bar is 2.067 times higher than the male one. . The result is that men contribute an increasingly smaller share of family income. Men began to fear losing their wives and the respect of their children. A study shows that small changes in income have significant effects on marriage rates among the poor and lower middle class. Additionally, unemployed men are more likely to beat their children, while children with unemployed fathers are also particularly vulnerable to psychological problems. Young adults Table 2 shows that the unemployment rate for young adults (15.9%) is much higher than that of the entire labor force of both sexes and those aged 15 and over (8.5%) in November 2009. Additionally, the unemployment percentage of young adults (2.7%) is higher than that of the comparison group (-0.8%) from October 2009 to November 2009, meaning that youth unemployment adults is still rising while unemployment of other groups has started to fall currently. Young adults are more likely than others to lose their jobs due to limited work experience. However, full-time students are less likely than others to receive government employment insurance benefits. In Table 4, the Exp (B) for part-time students is 11.178 and the Exp (B) for all part-time weeks is 11,178.1.