unemployment rates are much the same. Furthermore, inactivity is strongly concentrated among the unskilled and those suffering from …Inactivity rates among prime-age men in the UK have risen by at least five times since the early 1970s whereas … a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our analysis of inactivity rates by region and age group we find that …

creation in the private sector and unemployment. We also show that long-term unemployment depends on current and past values of … short-term unemployment and that this path-dependence fades away as soon as we reach time t-3. We interpret this result as …