caa a22 4500 386395683 CHVBK 20180307112137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047279400001847 doi S0047279400001847 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047279400001847 Micklewright John The Strange Case of British Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefit [Elektronische Daten] [John Micklewright] The abolition in 1982 of the Earnings-Related Supplement (ERS) to unemployment benefit, which had been introduced in 1966, left the UK with no element of income support for the unemployed linked to previous earnings. The ERS scheme represents an important case study of economic and social policy but it has been little researched hitherto. The paper examines the history of ERS, showing how the original legislation and subsequent development produced a benefit that bore little relation to schemes in other countries. Unpublished administrative data on the receipt of ERS are used to help document the scheme's failings, and the paper closes by placing ERS within the context of the development of unemployment insurance in Britain. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 527-548 0047-2794 18:4<527 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001847 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001847 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Micklewright John NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 527-548 0047-2794 18:4<527 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge