Release

Unemployment scarring: What affects a person's chances of finding a job following a period out of work?

Release date: 30 March 2021 9:30am

Summary

This analysis examines the impacts on a person’s chances of finding a job following a stint out of work, using quarterly data from the Labour Force Survey and annual data from Understanding Society.

Publications

Data

  • Enabling or disabling factors for returning to work data: modelled findings

    Experimental statistics using pooled data from the Labour Force Survey 2007 – 2020, and Understanding Society Longitudinal Surveys 2009 – 2018, to understand the enabling and disabling factors that could contribute to an individual's likelihood of returning to work. These tables present modelled estimates of the differences between different groups’ likelihood of returning to work in the next three months or year long periods, over the time frame.

  • Enabling or disabling factors for returning to work data: summary statistics

    Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates of the number of people out of work who either returned to employment or remained out of employment in three-month periods, broken down by a range of personal characteristics.