New approaches to the study of long term non-employment duration in Italy, Germany and Spain
- Bruno Cotini 1
- J. Ignacio Garcia Perez 2
- Toralf Pusch 3
- Roberto Quaranta
- 1 Università di Torino, Italia
- 2 Universidad Pablo Olavide, España
- 3 Hans Böckler Stiftung, Alemania
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.