Unemployment and subsequent earnings: Estimating scarring among British men 1984-94

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gregory, M; Jukes, R
• 署名单位: University of Oxford; University of London; Queen Mary University London
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00665
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: F607-F625
• 关键词: displaced workers; wages rise; job; losses; duration; stigma

摘要

This paper estimates the impact of unemployment on earnings following re-employment for a large and representative sample of British men, 1984-94. Unemployment incidence is found to have only a temporary effect, an average earnings setback of 10% on initial re-engagement largely eroding over two years. The effect of unemployment duration, by contrast, is permanent, a one-year spell adding a further penalty of 10 percentage points. These wage penalties are least for Young men and the low paid - those most at risk of unemployment - and greatest for prime age and highly paid men.