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The Transition from Short- to Long-Term Unemployment: A Statistical Profiling Model for Ireland

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Title The Transition from Short- to Long-Term Unemployment: A Statistical Profiling Model for Ireland
 
Creator O'Connell, Philip J.
McGuinness, Seamus
Kelly, Elish
 
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Description This paper develops a statistical profiling model of long-term unemployment risk in Ireland. We use a combination of administrative data and information gathered from a unique questionnaire that was issued to all jobseekers making a social welfare claim between September and December 2006 who were then tracked for eighteen months. We find that factors such as a recent history of long-term unemployment, advanced age, number of children, relatively low levels of education, literacy/numeracy problems, location in urban areas, lack of personal transport, low rates of recent labour market engagement, spousal earnings and geographic location all significantly affect the likelihood of remaining unemployed for twelve months or more. While the predicted probability distribution for males was found to be relatively normal, the female distribution was bimodal, indicating that larger proportions of females were at risk of falling into long-term unemployment. We find evidence that community based employment schemes for combating long-term unemployment have little effect as participants re-entering the register typically experience extended durations. Finally, we argue that the adoption of an unemployment profiling system will result in both equity and efficiency gains to Public Employment Services.
 
Publisher The Economic and Social Review
 
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Date 2013-02-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.esr.ie/article/view/56
 
Source The Economic and Social Review; Vol 43, No 1, Spring (2012); 135–164
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Language eng
 
Relation http://www.esr.ie/article/view/56/44
 
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