Financing employment policy: new approaches to the formation Of the state employment Fund

  • Sergey Smirnov HSE University, 20, Myasnitskaya ul., Moscow, 101000, Russia
Keywords: economic reform, employment policy, insurance premium, social guarantee, reducing the tax burden, redundancy of funds

Abstract

After reducing the rate of compulsory insurance contributions of employers to the State employment Fund from 2% of the wage Fund to 1.5%, the revenues of its budget in the vast majority of regions - subjects of the Russian Federation were insufficient to ensure timely and full payment of unemployment benefits, which, as is known, are among the social guarantees of the Federal level. For compensation of lost revenues of the employment Fund needs to be decisions on attraction of additional sources of formation of revenues of the employment Fund. The article shows that this problem has a solution. It also shows the possibility of reducing the tax burden on employers in terms of their involvement in the payment of insurance premiums to the state fiscal SERVICE.

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Published
1997-01-27
How to Cite
SmirnovS. (1997). Financing employment policy: new approaches to the formation Of the state employment Fund. HSE Economic Journal, 1(2), 53-66. Retrieved from https://ej.hse.ru/article/view/29727
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