TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose This paper empirically explores the role of skill losses during unemployment behind firms' behaviour in interviewing long-term unemployedDesign/methodology/approach The analysis makes use of the Work Employment Relations Survey in the UK, while it applies a panel probit modelling approach to estimate the empirical findings.Findings The findings document that skill losses during long-term unemployment reduce the likelihood of an interview, while they emphasize the need for certain policies that could compensate for this deterioration of skills. For robustness check, the estimation strategy survives the examination of the same predictors under different types of the working environment.Originality/value The original values of the work 1 combines for the first time both duration and technology as predictors of interview probability. Until now, the independent variables were used to test whether an individual has managed to exit unemployment, thus skipping the step of the interview process.
VL  - 47
IS  - 4
SN  - 0144-3585
DO  - 10.1108/JES-12-2018-0424
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-12-2018-0424
AU  - Apergis Emmanuel
AU  - Apergis Nicholas
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - Long-term unemployment: A question of skill obsolescence (updating existing skills) or technological shift (acquiring new skills)?
T2  - Journal of Economic Studies
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 713
EP  - 727
Y2  - 2024/05/14
ER  -