Scars of early non-employment in a rigid labour market

Corinna Ghirelli

No 2015008, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: This paper investigates whether the early experience of non-employment has a causal impact on workers' subsequent career. The analysis is based on a sample of low educated youth graduating between 1994 and 2002 in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. a rigid labour market. To correct for selective incidence of non-employment, we instrument early non-employment by the provincial unemployment rate at graduation. Since the instrument is clustered at the province-graduation year level and the number of clusters is small, inference is based on wild bootstrap methods. We find that one percentage point increase in the proportion of time spent in non-employment during the first two and a half years of the career decreases six years after graduation annual earnings from salaried employment by 10% and annual hours worked by 7% (unconditional effects).

Keywords: youth unemployment; scars; instrumental variable; wild bootstrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45
Date: 2015-04-23
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