| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22665 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22665 |
| The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data | |
| Katharine G. Abraham; John C. Haltiwanger; Kristin Sandusky; James Spletzer | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-09-26 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are “bad apples” who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that their bad outcomes are a consequence of the extended unemployment they have experienced (state dependence). We use Current Population Survey (CPS) data on unemployed individuals linked to wage records for the same people to distinguish between these competing explanations. For each person in our sample, we have wage record data that cover the period from 20 quarters before to 11 quarters after the quarter in which the person is observed in the CPS. This gives us rich information about prior and subsequent work histories not available to previous researchers that we use to control for individual heterogeneity that might be affecting subsequent labor market outcomes. Even with these controls in place, we find that unemployment duration has a strongly negative effect on the likelihood of subsequent employment. This result is robust to efforts to account for differences in labor market circumstances that might affect job-finding success rates. The findings are inconsistent with the heterogeneity (“bad apple”) explanation for why the long-term unemployed fare worse than the short-term unemployed and lend support to the state dependence explanation for the negative association between unemployment duration and subsequent employment rates. We also find that longer unemployment durations are associated with lower subsequent earnings, though this is mainly attributable to the long-term unemployed having a lower likelihood of subsequent employment rather than to their having lower earnings once a job is found. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22665 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580337 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Katharine G. Abraham,John C. Haltiwanger,Kristin Sandusky,et al. The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data. 2016. |
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