Ten years after the Eurocrisis, EURS is here!

EURS is here:

VERY BIG: the EU launches a European Unemployment Reinsurance Scheme (EURS- or SURE, in the new commission's label).
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1245297406054465541

The news was earlier on the FT ( https://www.ft.com/content/55ffe3e9-b97c-45af-880c-21fa6c7bd332?sharetype=blocked) and on Politico (https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plans-reinsurance-scheme-as-jobless-numbers-explode/)

Together with Theresa Kuhn, Brian Burgoon and Frank Vandenbroucke, with the generous support of INAPP, we worked hard on SURE/EURS. We explored public opinion in 13 European countries thanks to an experimental survey design.
This post provides an overview of our research in the field.

FIRST, the policy report. All main results are found here:
https://aissr.uva.nl/content/news/2018/12/eurs.html?cb.
If the report is too long for you to digest, a snapshot is provided in the executive summary. The latter is translated in many different languages, including Italian, German, French and Dutch.

Next, we already released some academic publications (open access, i.e. free-to-read), analysing more in detail how people's attitudes influence the relative effects of alternative EURS designs. In this regard, Kuhn et al (2020) we look to left/right positioning and EU support, showing how these different attitudes significantly change the effect that specific policy designs have on EURS/SURE support. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2019.1701529

In Nicoli et al (2020) we look instead to the effect of regional, national and European identities, showing that even tough identity matters a lot for EURS/SURE support, there are possible designs to EURS/SURE which can be supported enthusiastically also by nationalists.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.12985

Many more academic publications are also under review, looking for instance at the effects of conditionality as well as country-specific effects.

For those of you who don't have the time or patience to go through academic work, some of our research is also published in policy brief formats, for instance by the Jacques Delors- Notre Europe institiute, both in French and English:
https://institutdelors.eu/en/publications/european-unemployment-insurance-what-citizens-really-think/

Our research builds upon, and somehow inherits, previous work done by excellent think thanks like CEPS on behalf of the European Commission. Much of their research is summarized by this excellent report (which is however quite technical):
https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/design-european-unemployment-benefit-scheme/

Finally, a less technical but very precise introductory piece is provided by Frank Vandenbroucke:
https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2017/number/3/article/risk-reduction-risk-sharing-and-moral-hazard-a-vaccination-metaphor.html