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Unemployed and Scarred for Life?
Longitudinal Analyses of How Unemployment and Policy Changes Affect 
Re-employment Careers and Wages in the Netherlands, 1980-2000
How are individuals’ employment careers and wages influenced by unemployment 
and by changing unemployment insurance policies? A twofold strategy addresses 
this research question.  First, a longitudinal approach traces how early life course 
conditions such as unemployment and restrictions in UI reforms shape the later 
employment careers and wages of workers. Second, a quasi-experimental approach 
disentangles whether and how inequalities in individuals’ employment careers and 
re-employment wages potentially increase as they interact with changing UI benefit 
policies. This approach took advantage of the ability to examine a range of policy 
reforms in UI benefits enacted during the 1980s and 1990s in the Netherlands.
The empirical evidence presented in this book illustrates that unemployment ‘scars’ 
the subsequent employment and wage outcomes of individuals. Multiple job loss and 
the most recent unemployment experience are identified as the key determinants 
shaping inequalities in workers’ re-employment careers and wages. The negative 
impact of unemployment was even more intensified in periods of more restrictive 
UI reforms in the level, duration and eligibility of benefits. This negative effect of 
restrictive reforms was particularly significant for women and highly-skilled workers, 
but also larger when undertaken in depressed labor markets. 
	 	Irma	Mooi-Reçi	works	as	an	assistant	professor	at	the	Department	of	Social	Research		
Methodology,	at	the	VU	University,	the	Netherlands.	
Unemployed and Scarred for Life?
ISBN-13: 978-90-9023654-4
Irma Mooi-Reçi


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