Welfare States and the Scar Effects of Unemployment: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and West Germany1

By M. Gangl. American Journal of Sociology, 2004

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From Opt Out to Blocked Out: The Challenges for Labor Market Re-entry after Family-Related Employment Lapses (2018, methodology): “…empirically by using experimental designs to account for human capital (Pedulla 2016), and by assessing unemployment’s effect net of job tenure, specific skills, and lapse length (e.g., Arulampalam, Gregg, and Gregory 2001; Eriksson and Rooth 2014; Gangl 2004; Ghayad 2015; Kroft et al. 2013).”
The impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in the labor market and gender-role attitudes (2020, background): “the labor market (Gangl 2004), a difficulty that women may disproportionately experience (Alon et al.”
Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy: resolving the paradox (2008, background): “Institutionalist work in the comparative sociology of labour markets and mobility regimes (DiPrete and McManus, 2000; DiPrete, 2002; Gangl, 2004) on the ‘scar effects’ of unemployment spells on individual life courses indicates that high replacement rates do not simply result in upskilling of…”
Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments (2006, background): “The methodological di¢ culties of distinguishing these possibilities may be a reason why the sociological literature has not devoted more attention to this question in recent years (though see Gangl (2004) for an important exception).”