ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief summary of the more important proposals and conclusions. The dual system of unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance should be maintained. The Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee is in fact reaching the limit of the proposals that it is prepared to make on its own responsibility to improve the insurance scheme, so that even if there were a large surplus in the Fund, then, if there were not changes elsewhere, it is doubtful whether benefit rates would be increased. Parliament should accept its responsibility as the only body at present capable of co-ordinating the social services. Unemployment expenditure has, in itself, an effect upon the level of unemployment, so that it is important that it should be related to trade-cycle policy. The contribution method of raising revenue is most unsatisfactory both because the employer's contribution is liable to be passed on to the worker and because it involves a regressive form of taxation on the worker.
