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

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

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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)
JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 1999-12
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