This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic … cycle. Analysing the BritishHousehold Panel Survey for 1991-96, we are able to square the microevidence — that unemployment …

We examine whether unemployment early in an individual’scareer influences her later employment prospects. We use six … yearsof the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohortvariation in unemployment at school-leaving age to identify …