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How Long Does Unemployment Last?
Author(s) -
Wegmann Robert
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1991.tb00314.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , period (music) , demographic economics , labour economics , work (physics) , face (sociological concept) , discouraged worker , race (biology) , economics , psychology , unemployment rate , sociology , economic growth , gender studies , engineering , social science , mechanical engineering , physics , acoustics
A typical period of unemployment lasts 2 or 3 months. The length of a period of unemployment varies considerably, however, depending on age, sex, race, and level of education. Older, college‐educated workers often face a job search period of 4–6 months. It is also important to note that one unemployed person in three stops looking for work and withdraws from the labor force (at least temporarily) before a job is obtained.