Categorising tax-related changes (Table A6) in a similar fashion is less straightforward and was therefore not attempted. For people with short or interrupted employment records, reforms in Finland, France and the United Kingdom tended to make it harder to qualify for unemployment insurance (UI). Most countries also reduced benefit levels, either through discrete policy changes, or by not fully adjusting (“indexing”) benefits in line within-work earnings (Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, United Kingdom as well as Germany for jobseekers without children).