Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?

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Martin Biewen, Susanne Steffes

In: Economics Letters 106 (2010), 3, 188-190

Abstract

We explore the idea that a negative relationship between individual unemployment persistence and the business cycle can be interpreted as evidence for stigma effects. Our results suggest that there is weak evidence for stigma effects.



Keywords: Unemployment persistence; State dependence; Human capital depreciation; Stigma effects; Scarring
Externer Link:
http://opus.zbw-kiel.de/volltexte/2008/7380/pdf/dp08057.pdf

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2009.11.016

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