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| Title: | | Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?  |
| Authors: | | Biewen, Martin Steffes, Susanne |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 08-057 |
| Abstract: | | We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is smaller in times of relatively high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative signal and do so especially when it is easier to find jobs, i.e. when unemployment is low. |
| Subjects: | | Unemployment persistence state dependence human capital depreciation stigma effects scarring |
| JEL: | | C23 J65 J64 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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