Patterns of Employment Disadvantage in a Recession

Richard Berthoud () and Lina Cardona-Sosa

A chapter in Who Loses in the Downturn? Economic Crisis, Employment and Income Distribution, 2011, pp 83-113 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: There has been much commentary on the consequences of a recession on the incomes of households. This short chapter aims to contribute to the debate about the current recession by analysing the impact of the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s on non-employment patterns among people in the main range of working ages in Great Britain. The hypothesis is that the effects observed in earlier business cycles are likely to be repeated now. The chapter uses a series of General Household Surveys over a 32-year period, to show, first, the impact of cyclical factors on overall patterns of non-employment (including mothers and disabled people, as well as the unemployed), and second, which social groups are most affected. A key question is whether types of people who are already disadvantaged are especially sensitive to a downturn. Recent data can be used to test how far the experience of previous business cycles is being repeated in the current recession.

Keywords: Employment; unemployment; recession; disadvantage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1108/S0147-9121(2011)0000032006

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