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Early Unemployment and Subsequent Career Complexity: A Sequence-Based Perspective

Author(s) -

Anna Manzoni,

Irma MooiReci

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of contextual economics – schmollers jahrbuch

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114

H-Index - 1

eISSN - 2568-762X

pISSN - 2568-7603

DOI - 10.3790/schm.131.2.339

Subject(s) - unemployment , disadvantage , german , perspective (graphical) , economics , labour economics , life course approach , panel data , demographic economics , psychology , econometrics , social psychology , political science , economic growth , archaeology , law , history , artificial intelligence , computer science

We aim to examine how previous unemployment affects future unemployment and career complexity over the life course. Theory suggests that unemployment triggers negative chains of ‘low-pay-no-pay’ circles. Using longitudinal data on men aged 18-64 from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we employ sequence-based methods to quantify career complexity and dynamic panel models to test our hypotheses about the process of cumulative disadvantage on employment careers for the previously unemployed workers over time. We find that unemployment ‘breeds’ unemployment and increases career complexity over the life course. However, unemployment at older ages leads to much higher career complexity than at younger ages.

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