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In contrast, Australia's robust economic plumbing enabled a much more effective economic policy response:
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These examples are discussed in my note on and 's excellent book Australia's Pandemic Exceptionalism.
My note can be found here:
josephnoelwalker.com/note-on-austra
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If Australia's economic response to the pandemic was far superior to the USA, why has Aus done so poorly on per capita growth, productivity and real wages relative to the USA since then? Isn't this a better test of policy outcomes?
That was a problem before the pandemic.
This post was about how economic plumbing constrained policy during the crisis.
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FWIW - it's not that they don't allow multiplication, it's that UI benefit calculations are really complicated.
It's easier to say "add $300 after everything else is determined" than "create a variable for 100% of previous wages".
If you quit your job voluntarily you aren't eligible for unemployment benefits
Sometimes the issue was even more serious than timing delays. Coding changes could have potentially crashed their systems!
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If anything, the 2020 policy discussion about increasing weekly unemployment benefits by (A) a % or (B) a flat $ amount probably downplayed the system limitations.
"A crash could disable the system for an extended period and render Vermont unable to administer its UI program."
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The paragraph is confusing. Did $600 extra per week made median UI benefit 110% of prior earnings or 145%?
Yeah, can tell how good the Australian response was vs. the US by the robust economic growth in Australia vs the states in the last few years.
Maybe the enhanced unemployment changed the rules (or there are other rules for specific circumstances), but I'm pretty sure that if you quit voluntarily you're not eligible for unemployment compensation.
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