The experience of job loss and re-employment typically focuses on the unemployed population, those who experience a job separation and are actively seeking work. However, a significant share of people who lose their jobs are not captured in the unemployed population, as they are not actively seeking work. Additionally, the share of people considered outside the labor force has steadily increased in the last three decades. This analysis considers all individuals who lose their jobs, not only the unemployed, to understand how the time to re-employment is shaped by an individual’s social position, specifically their household income (i.e., quartile) and the reason for their job loss.
