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The other thing is that unemployment definitely gives you an incentive not to work, and that is this:
they give you half your previous salary
and therefore you will not take a job that pays 3/5ths of your previous salary. Let's see, $100 more a week to do shit-level customer support work... no I will stay out, and use my time to look for something better.
And there is some incentive not to take things that pay 4/5ths, although I would certainly take that... because if you become unemployed at a new lower salary, you will only get half of the new level salary, yuh see.
This applies both to me, well-paid IP expert, and to the boy, 22-year-old unskilled laborer. In the good economy he could do construction for $14/hour. But now he could only get, say, landscaping work at $8/hour. That's not a good deal because he would be laid off at the end of the landscaping season, and then his unemployment would be truly pathetic, instead of the tiny amount he gets now.
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