This article reviews the empirical literature on the scarring effects of unemployment, by first
presenting an overview of empirical evidence relating to the impact of unemployment spells …

Variation between and within individuals in life history traits is ubiquitous in natural
populations. When affecting fitness‐related traits such as survival or reproduction, individual …

Many immigrant groups disproportionately experience unemployment and this disadvantage
often extends to their children—the second generation. This paper contributes to this stream …

This paper studies the dynamics of the scarring effect of youth unemployment over the
business cycle in 12 European countries. On the one hand, we analyse differences …

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job
candidates' unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we …

Youth employment prospects are highly sensitive to the business cycle, and especially so at
labour market entry. Young workers tend to be the last in and therefore the first out when an …

This paper studies the unobserved factors accounting for the stickiness of unemployment
and for its micro-level longitudinal accumulation. The paper disentangles 'genuine state …

This paper analyses the relationship between a husband's job loss and marital stability,
focusing on involuntary employment terminations due to plant closures or dismissals. Using …

Are low wages a way for the unemployed to switch to higher-paying jobs? Using data from
the British Household Panel Survey, the labour market dynamics of unemployed, low-paid …

The economic literature considers a low‐paid job as a 'stepping‐stone'if it improves jobless
individuals' future likelihood of transitioning towards higher pay. The majority of empirical …