Unemployment persistence: Is there evidence for stigma effects?

Martin Biewen and Susanne Steffes

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 106, issue 3, 188-190

Abstract: We explore the idea that a negative relationship between individual unemployment persistence and the business cycle can be interpreted as evidence for stigma effects. Our results suggest that there is weak evidence for stigma effects.

Keywords: Unemployment; persistence; State; dependence; Human; capital; depreciation; Stigma; effects; Scarring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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