Heterogeneous Scarring Effects of Full-Year Nonemployment

Fatih Guvenen, Fatih Karahan, Serdar Ozkan and Jae Song ()

American Economic Review, 2017, vol. 107, issue 5, 369-73

Abstract: Drawing on administrative data from the Social Security Administration, we find that individuals that go through a long period of non-employment suffer large and long-term earnings losses (around 35-40 percent) compared to individuals with similar age and previous earnings histories. Importantly, these differences depend on past earnings, and are largest at the bottom and top of the earnings distribution. Focusing on workers that are employed 10 years after a period of long-term non-employment, we find much smaller earnings losses (8-10 percent). Furthermore, the large earnings losses of low-income individuals are almost entirely due to employment effects.

JEL-codes: E24 J31 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171012
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