Abstract
This chapter proposes a new approach to the analysis of long-term non-employment, its duration and main causes using administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment denotes able people who have never worked or have withdrawn from work for whatever reason and who are not actively looking for work. In this paper, we estimate the number of long-term non-employed (LTNE) in Italy, Germany and Spain LTNE duration and some of the LTNE’s main characteristics. Non-employment duration averages 10–15 years for people in their 30s and may reach 20–25 years for the 45–50-year-old.