This paper studies the dynamics of the scarring effect of youth unemployment over the business cycle in 12 European countries. On the one hand, we analyse differences associated with the negative effect of past unemployment experiences on future labour market status. And, on the other hand, we consider the potential stigmatization of prospective young workers – that is, the extent to which employers are more reluctant to hire individuals with a history of unemployment. Our results are based on data from the EU-SILC for the period 2004 to 2015 and provide support in favour of a significant scarring effect of unemployment among youths that is highly heterogeneous across the countries under analysis and that increased substantially during the Great Recession. In contrast, the evidence of stigma effects was found to be rather weak.

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欧洲商业周期中的青年失业和污名化*

本文研究了 12 个欧洲国家青年失业对商业周期的影响的动态。一方面，我们分析了与过去失业经历对未来劳动力市场状况的负面影响相关的差异。另一方面，我们考虑了对潜在年轻工人的潜在污名化——即雇主更不愿意雇用有失业历史的个人的程度。我们的结果基于 2004 年至 2015 年期间 EU-SILC 的数据，并支持年轻人失业的显着疤痕效应，这种效应在所分析的国家中高度异质，并且在大衰退期间大幅增加。相比之下，污名效应的证据却相当薄弱。