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In Albania, the policy brief examines unemployment benefits as a social insurance tool protecting workers from job loss, within a broader system combining social insurance and government-funded assistance. It also links Albania’s high exposure to natural hazards and COVID-19–style shocks to the need for flexible protection mechanisms.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disc losure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nADAPTIVE SOCIAL  \nPROTECTION IN ALBANIA: The Case of Unemployment Benefits 1  \nCountries are increasingly turning to their social protection systems to protect poor people from the negative effects of shocks. Given the growing size and frequency of covariate shocks – such as natural disasters, forced displacement and pandemics – many countries around the world have turned to their social protection systems to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to such events. This so-called Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) is intended to respond directly to protect people from sudden losses of income, disruption to livelihoods and rising costs of essential goods and services arising from shocks. In this way, ASP investsin the capacity of poor and vulnerable households to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks.2 In the absence of such support, when shocks hit, families and their children risk falling into (deeper) poverty and using negative coping strategies that often negatively affect human capital accumulation – such as withdrawing their children from school.  \nThe growing use of social protection programs in response to shocks is evidenced by the COVID-19 response: by December 2020, a total of 215 countries or territories had planned or implemented social protection measures as part of their response to the pandemic.3  \nThis policy brief focuses on unemployment benefits – a social insurance instrument that aims to protect workers from job loss – to consider its contribution to ASP. The social protection system in Albania comprises social insurance, which is based on contributions made through a formal employment contract; and social assistance, which provides government-funded support to poor and vulnerable individuals irrespective of their previous employment status.4 Social insurance programs are largely designed to provide protection to formal workers in response to idiosyncratic shocks,5 although the flexibility inherent in their design – and  \n~~ ~~ 1  \n1 This policy note was written by Stefanie Brodmann, Sarah Coll-Black, and Cornelius von Lenthe, and reviewed by Zoran Anusic, Gonzalo Reyes, and Tatiana Skalon. It draws heavily on a background note for the Albania Country Economic Memorandum 2021, which was prepared by Stefanie Brodmann, Sarah Coll-Black, and Cornelius von Lenthe (World Bank Social Protection and Jobs), with inputs and comments from Zoran Anusic, Gozde Meseli Teague, Juna Miluka, Efsan Nas Ozen, Ana Maria Oviedo, Gonzalo Reyes, Jamele Rigolini, Hilda Shijaku, and Christoph Ungerer. The preparation of this policy note benefited from support provided by the Government of Switzerland through the Albania Financial Resilience and Recovery technical assistance to the World Bank–SECO Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program for Middle-Income Countries.  \n2 Bowen, T., C. del Ninno, C. Andrews, S. Coll-Black, U. Gentilini, K. Johnson, Y. Kawasoe, A. Kryeziu, B. Maher, and A. Williams. 2020. Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks.  \n3 Gentilini, Ugo, Mohamed Almenfi, Ian Orton, and Pamela Dale. 2020. Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19: A Real-Time Review of Country Measures. (December 11, 2020) . COVID-19 Living Paper Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. [http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/467521607723220511/Social-Protection-and-Jobs](http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/467521607723220511/Social-Protection-and-Jobs)Responses-to-COVID-19-A-Real-Time-Review-of-Country-Measures-December-11-2020  \n4 Social protection in Albania also includes (i) social services; and (ii) labor market programs. Social protection expenditure in Albania amounted to 9 percent of GDP in 2019. Most of this expenditure goes towards social insurance (mainly pensions), for which spending amounts to 7.6 percent of GDP.  \n5 Packard, T., Gentilini, U., Grosh, M., O’Keefe, P., Palacios, ","cbCain9JKCYKG7uZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain9JKCYKG7uZ","pdf",419736,3,1,7,"English","en",105,"# Adaptive Social Protection and Shock Response\n## Unemployment benefits within Albania’s social protection system\n# Albania’s Exposure to Covariate Shocks\n## Natural hazards and labor market impacts","[{\"question\":\"What is Adaptive Social Protection and what problem does it address?\",\"answer\":\"Adaptive Social Protection aims to protect people from sudden income losses, livelihood disruption, and rising costs caused by shocks, helping households prepare for, cope with, and adapt to them.\"},{\"question\":\"Why focus specifically on unemployment benefits in this policy brief?\",\"answer\":\"Unemployment benefits are treated as a social insurance instrument designed to protect workers from job loss, and the brief assesses how they could contribute to an adaptive social protection response in Albania.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Albania’s shock exposure relate to unemployment risk?\",\"answer\":\"Albania faces significant natural disaster risk and shock-driven events can lead to job losses and longer periods of job searching, increasing the need for effective income protection measures.\"}]","ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION IN ALBANIA - 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