For OECD countries, it is possible to compute a measure of effective unemployment insurance capturing the accessibility of benefits and the generosity of unemployment compensation, while also taking into account the progressivity of the tax system24. The effective unemployment insurance is thus defined as the product of the coverage of the unemployment insurance/assistance, and replacement rates of public transfers received by the unemployed25. For non OECD countries, this measure is calculated from survey data as the ratio of the average benefit level (among the unemployed) to the median net earnings (among the employed).