Resumen

In industrialized countries, unemployment insurance benefits now reach only a minority of the unemployed. The drift to means-tested assistance and the lack of benefits altogether for a substantial proportion of the unemployed has reflected higher unemployment, tighter conditions for entitlement and a process of implicit disentitlement due to the trend away from regular, full-time employment. As a result, once more, to be unemployed is usually to face substantial and growing economic insecurity.