Scars of early job insecurity across Europe

Insights from a multi-country employer study

authored by

Christian Imdorf, Lulu P. Shi, Stefan Sacchi, Robin Samuel, Christer Hyggen, Rumiana Stoilova, Yordanova Gabriela, Pepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva‐Trichkova, Dimitris Parsanoglou, Aggeliki Yfanti

Abstract

Early unemployment is associated with lower income, poor work quality and diminished chances of future employment. These issues have gained new relevance since the Great Recession (Dietrich, 2012; Scarpetta et al., 2010), which affected young jobseekers across Europe. The persisting consequences of employment instability and unemployment are studied and are known in the literature as scarring effects, but researchers have paid little attention to date as to how the scarring effects of early unem- ployment on hiring prospects differ across countries. In this chapter we study how unemployment spells and other signals of job insecurity in young jobseekers’ curriculum vitae (CVs) affect their hiring chances with recruiters in Bulgaria, Greece, Norway and Switzerland.

Organisation(s)

Sociology Department

External Organisation(s)

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)
University of Basel
University of Bern
University of Luxembourg
Oslo Metropolitan University
Panteion University

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

93-116

No. of pages

24

Publication date

22.02.2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118897.00011 (Access: Open)