Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45730 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2009:10
Publisher: 
Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for the inclusion of a rich set of observable control variables, including grade point average from high school and parental educational level, and for choice of method i.e. OLS and propensity score matching. This lends some support for the interpretation that unemployment upon graduation has the causal effect of reducing future earnings prospects.
Subjects: 
Scarring
state dependence
higher education
college-to-work
JEL: 
J24
J31
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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