Unemployment persistence: Is there evidence for stigma effects?

Economics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 188-190

  Biewen, Martin ^a   Steffes, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human capital depreciation; Scarring; State dependence; Stigma effects; Unemployment persistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349120155     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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