Youth survival in the labour market: Employment scarring in three transition economies

Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski (), Marjan Petreski () and Marjan I Bojadziev
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Marjan I. Bojadjiev

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2017, vol. 28, issue 2, 312-331

Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine whether the prevalent and fairly long unemployment spell of young Macedonians, Serbians and Montenegrins early in their career has negative effects on their subsequent labour-market performance: the so-called employment scarring. We first model unemployment spell as a function of individual and household characteristics and work attitudes and preferences using a discrete-time duration method. Then, we estimate the survival probabilities to examine the potential existence of employment scarring. The results provide some evidence for the potential presence of employment scarring in the three countries. The scars are largest in Serbia for all durations of the unemployment spell followed by Macedonia; they are weakest in Montenegro.

Keywords: Long-term unemployment; scarring; transition economies; youth unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J24 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1035304617706424

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