The phrase "a scarring effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lasting negative impact or trauma resulting from an experience or event.
Example: "The war left a scarring effect on the community, with many residents struggling to cope with their memories."
Alternatives: "a lasting impact" or "a traumatic effect."
The war had a scarring effect on Salinger, and it's always best to read his fiction in the light of this experience.
"Being out of work for more than a year can have a scarring effect, making it harder to get a job as well as having a negative impact on one's health and well-being.
For every year Martin doesn't work, he suffers a "scarring effect", making him less likely to find work in the future and more likely to earn up to 20percentt less than his peers who found jobs right after graduation.
All in all, we interpret these results as evidence pointing towards a scarring effect on later labour market attachment.
A previous adverse outcome may have a "scarring" effect, because it causes women to rush into a next pregnancy (replacement) without properly recovering from the previous pregnancy.
Using the same survey data, Mooi-Reci and Ganzeboom (2015) found a significant scarring effect of unemployment in general in the period 1985–2000, with a notable disparity in the unemployment scarring by gender.
This short term mismatch between skills and employment carries a well-recognised long-term scarring effect for the affected migrants and hampers the ability of the country to meet specific skill shortages through its migration programme.
On the other hand, research on the scarring effect of graduating in a recession suggests that the most persistent negative effects are concentrated on less-skilled college graduates.
It is because of the growing national consensus about the scarring effect of removal on children, even if only temporarily, that federal law — to which all state law must defer — demands that children be removed only if "reasonable efforts" to keep them at home have been made.
The report's authors warn that the total EU costs associated with rising numbers of Neets – €10.8bn in public finance and €142.1bn in estimated loss of output – are "very conservative", as they do not include extra spending on crime or health or the likely long-term scarring effect of unemployment.
As we do not find significant long-term effects, no scarring effect is found for skilled female and male workers.
