TY - RPRT AU - Brunello, Giorgio TI - Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth PY - 2001/Jun/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 311 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp311 AB - I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on subsequent earnings growth. KW - Education KW - unemployment KW - Europe ER -