The Class of '81: The effects of early-career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences

Simon Burgess (), Carol Propper, Hedley Rees and Arran Shearer

CASE Papers from Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE

Abstract: We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school-leaving age to identify this. We find heterogeneous responses: for the unskilled, there is evidence of an enduring adverse effect; for the more skilled, there is a small beneficial effect.

Keywords: Unemployment; scarring; pseudo-cohorts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-12
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