Unemployment scarring by gender: Human capital depreciation or stigmatization? Longitudinal evidence from the Netherlands, 1980-2000.

The Scarring Effects of Unemployment: Evidence from the Netherlands, 1980-2000

This paper uses longitudinal data from the Dutch OSA Labor Supply Panel (1980-2000) to examine the phenomenon of unemployment scarring in the Netherlands. The study extends current research by not only asking if earlier unemployment damages subsequent employment careers and wages but also explores variation by the level of unemployment insurance benefits and key individual characteristics such ...

Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers

Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a flexible method for analyzing the effect on wages aside of transitions from unemployment and employment within a mult...

Unemployment Persistence 1

We estimate dynamic panel data models of unemployment incidence of British men, in order to disentangle the effects of unobserved individual heterogeneity and true state dependence. We also control for the ‘initial conditions’ problem that arises when the start of the observation period does not coincide with the start of the stochastic process generating individuals’ unemployment experiences. ...

Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers pdfauthor=Bart Cockx and Matteo Picchio

This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labour market outcomes. We propose a flexible method for analysing the effect on wages aside of transitions from unemployment and employment within a multivariate duration model which controls for selection on observables and unobserv...

UNEMPLOYED AND SCARRED FOR LIFE? Longitudinal Analyses of How Unemployment and Policy Changes Affect Re-employment Careers and Wages in the Netherlands, 1980-2000 How are individuals’ employment careers and wages influenced by unemployment and by changing unemployment insurance