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Unemployment scarring is a term used to describe long-lasting effects which emerge from being made unemployed. According to the ESCR, it is usually used in response to youth unemployment – causing people to have lower pay, higher unemployment and reduced life chances throughout their lives. Who is at risk? According to a new report by the Office for National Statistics, there are many factors which could leave people vulnerable to unemployment scarring. Specifically, the research found that people with disabilities and people who had spent a long time out of a job were most likely to experience long-term unemployment. Research found that, between 2007 and 2020, only 7.6 per cent of disabled people who were out of work, but had previously had a job, returned to employment in the next three months. This is four times less than the number of non-disabled people in the same position (26.8 per cent). This has been directly linked to the disability, with disabled people’s chances of finding a job being 7.4 percentage points lower on average than those of non-disabled people. Another factor which was shown to dampen people’s prospects in terms of finding a new job was the amount of time spent
