{"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<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\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<p>\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 Carleton University in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\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<p>\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<p>\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<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/documents-show-liberals-warned-of-political-perils-from-launching-ei-review\/wcm\/0ff46540-ffed-41d4-84e0-825a7bdbbda9\">The Canadian Press, \u201cDocuments show Liberals warned of political perils from launching EI review,\u201d <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/a> at www.ottawacitizen.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\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 Carleton 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 [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}