The Impact Oe Youth Unemployment on Adult Unemployment in the Ncds*

Using the National Child Development Survey, this paper looks at cumulated experience of unemployment, highlighting how unemployment experience is concentrated on a minority of the workforce over extended periods. Eow educational attainment, ability not capttired by edtication, financial deprivation and behavioural problems in childhood raise a person's susceptibility to unemployment, there is strong evidence of strtictural dependence indticed by early unemployment experience for men btit only minor persistence for women. Attacking low edticatioual achievement, and preventing the build-up of substantial periods in unemployment as youths, may reduce the extent to which a minority of men spend a large part of their working lives tuiemployed.