Research Paper

Changing picture of male unemployment in Britain

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Series or book
Working Papers of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change
Series or chapter number
96-18
Publisher
University of Essex

Abstract

This paper uses panel and retrospective life history data from an important new data source - the British Household Panel Survey - to establish some stylised facts about the unemployment experiences of men. In particular, we investigate the proportion of the sample who suffer from repeated unemployment spells, the origin and destination states of unemployment spells, some reasons for entering unemployment, and the length of time spent unemployed over difficult periods and across labour market entry cohorts.

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