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

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.

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Year of publication:	1999-12
Authors:	Burgess, Simon ; Propper, Carol ; Rees, Hedley ; Shearer, Arran
Institutions:	London School of Economics (LSE)
Subject:	Unemployment \| scarring \| pseudo-cohorts

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	LSE Research Online Documents on Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series CASEpaper, CASE/32 30 pages
Classification:	R14 - Land Use Patterns ; J01 - Labor Economics: General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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