{"id":36479,"date":"2019-08-09T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=36479"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:58","slug":"professor-frances-woolley-comments-on-ei-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2019\/professor-frances-woolley-comments-on-ei-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Frances Woolley comments on EI review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Professor Frances Woolley comments on EI review\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

\u201cThere is widespread consensus about the issues facing employment insurance, but less agreement about the policy avenues to follow, said Frances Woolley, an economics professor from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAny changes will have well-defined losers, particularly if changes affect seasonal workers and high-unemployment regions, she said, while winners spread across the country aren\u2019t going to be as loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Whenever you have a situation where you have a well-defined group of losers and a diffuse group of winners, it\u2019s a politically impossible situation,\u2019 said Woolley, who has studied the EI system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018You\u2019re not going to be able to build political consensus around that. So what\u2019s the point of having a review when there isn\u2019t something you can build political consensus about?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The Canadian Press, \u201cDocuments show Liberals warned of political perils from launching EI review,\u201d Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/a> at www.ottawacitizen.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is widespread consensus about the issues facing employment insurance, but less agreement about the policy avenues to follow, said Frances Woolley, an economics professor from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in Ottawa. \u201cAny changes will have well-defined losers, particularly if changes affect seasonal workers and high-unemployment regions, she said, while winners spread across the country aren\u2019t going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,204,203,118,202],"class_list":["post-36479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canadian-press","tag-ei","tag-ei-review","tag-frances-woolley","tag-ottawa-citizen"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36480,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479\/revisions\/36480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}