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. [1] Università di Torino, Italia
  2. [2] Universidad Pablo Olavide, España
  3. [3] Hans Böckler Stiftung, Alemania

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• Localización: Documentos de trabajo ( FEDEA ), ISSN 1696-7496, Nº. 14, 2017, págs. 1-35
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.