Unemployment Persistence: How Important Are Non-Cognitive Skills?

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Santiago Budria Rodriguez ()

No 6654, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a random effects dynamic panel data model and the 2000-2008 waves of the German SOEP this paper shows that non-cognitive skills have a predictive power on unemployment transitions.

Keywords: unemployment persistence; dynamic random effects model; non-cognitive skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2012-06
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Published - published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 29-37

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