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Labor-Market Scars When Youth Unemployment is Extremely High: Evidence from Macedonia

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  • Marjan Petreski
  • Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski
  • Marcelo Bergolo

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The objective of this article is to assess how the duration of unemployment spells for Macedonian youth affects their later employment (employment “scarring”) and wage outcomes (wage “scarring”). The discrete-time duration method is used to determine the unemployment spell and the standard employment and Mincer earnings functions. The School-to-Work Transition Survey 2012 is used. The results robustly suggest the presence of employment scarring: youth who remain unemployed over longer time periods have lower chances to find a job afterwards. However, the article provides no evidence for the existence of wage scarring in the Macedonian labor market.

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  • Marjan Petreski & Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski & Marcelo Bergolo, 2017. "Labor-Market Scars When Youth Unemployment is Extremely High: Evidence from Macedonia," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(2), pages 168-196, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:eaeuec:v:55:y:2017:i:2:p:168-196
    DOI: 10.1080/00128775.2016.1261631
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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