Between 2005 and 2018, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) con- ducted a series of pilot projects to test the effects of changes to the WWC provisions on the behaviour of claimants. [...] The new threshold applied to 23 EI regions (of the 58 regions at the time) where the unemployment rate was 10 percent or higher.4 The government wanted to see if raising the allowable earnings threshold would encourage more part-time or casual work and lead to more permanent work after a claim. [...] However, under the work provisions in Austria, the cost of transitioning from a part-time job to more permanent employment is particularly high because having any earnings above the threshold leads to the complete loss of unemployment benefits. [...] Overall, the evidence sug- gests that taking part-time work during a period of unemployment can improve the ability of workers to transition to permanent work over the duration of the claim. [...] The amount of money in the account would be somewhat less than the total amount of funds available for the duration of the claim period.
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