New approaches to the study of long term non-employment duration in Italy, Germany and Spain

  1. Bruno Cotini 1
  2. J. Ignacio Garcia Perez 2
  3. Toralf Pusch 3
  4. Roberto Quaranta
  1. 1 Università di Torino, Italia
  2. 2 Universidad Pablo Olavide, España
  3. 3 Hans Böckler Stiftung, Alemania
Revista:
Documentos de trabajo ( FEDEA )

ISSN: 1696-7496

Año de publicación: 2017

Número: 14

Páginas: 1-35

Tipo: Documento de Trabajo

Otras publicaciones en: Documentos de trabajo ( FEDEA )

Resumen

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using administrative longitudinal databases. Nonemployment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits and the long-term inactive. Many of the non-employed individuals will never return to the official labour market. We estimate the magnitude and duration of non-employment, applying the survival methodology developed in recent years to deal with ‘workforce disposal’. Long-term non-employment (LTNE) may lead to dramatic changes in individual lifestyles, family and childbearing projects, levels of poverty and welfare at large.