Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 May 2000
- ISBN 9780198297970
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 234x156x23 mm
- Weight 621 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
Over the last twenty years, most countries have experienced periods of high unemployment. While in all countries, this had led to increased poverty and personal distress, the severity of the effects of unemployment have been very different from one society to another. This book provides for the first time clear evidence about the way in which the nature of the welfare arrangements in a country, together with its family and friendship patterns, can affect the risk that unemployment leads to social exclusion.
MoreLong description:
The book is the first major study to examine the implications of differences in welfare regimes for the experience of unemployment in Europe. It is concerned with three central questions about the way such regimes affect the experience of unemployment. The first is how far they protect the quality of life of unemployed people with respect to living standards and the experience of financial hardship. The second is their role in mediating the impact of unemployment on the individual's longer-term position in the labour market, addressing the issue of how far they help to prevent progressive marginalization from the employment structure as a result of motivational change, skill loss or the growth of discriminatory barriers. The third is how far such regimes mediate the impact of unemployment on social integration in the community, for instance with respect to the maintenance (or rupture) of social networks and the degree of psychological distress experienced by the unemployed.
The book is the product of a major cross-cultural research programme, funded by the European Union (TSER), bringing together teams from eight countries. The emphasis has been on rigorous comparison rather than the all-too-frequent separate country analyses, which usually provide data which differs in format from one country to another. In addition to a systematic comparison of national data sources, it has been able to make use of a new important data source (the European Community Household Panel) produced by Eurostat which provides directly comparable information for all EU countries.
The study shows that institutional and cultural differences have vital implications for the experience of unemployment. While welfare policies affect in an important way the pervasiveness of poverty, it is above all the patterns of family structure and the culture of sociability in a society that affect vulnerability to social isolation. The book concludes by developing a new perspective for understanding the risk of social exclusion.
This book is a comprehensive study of unemployment experiences in Europe, both in terms of its thematic variety and the number of countries included. The results are based on representative micro data comparable between all countries studied. The authors make efficient use of this information using state of the art statistical methodology. There is no doubt that this study advances our understanding of the social regulation of unemployment
Table of Contents:
The Experience of Unemployment in Europe: The Debate
PART 1: UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY
Unemployment and Poverty: Change over Time
Poverty and Financial Hardship among the Unemployed
Unemployment and Income Packaging among European Youth
The Changing Effects of Social Protection on Poverty
PART 2: UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET MARGINALISATION
Unemployment, Gender and Attitudes to Work
The Permanent Effects of Labour Market Entry in Times of High Unemployment
Unemployment and Cumulative Disadvantage in the Labour Market
Poverty and the Employment of Lone Mothers
Social Capital and Exits from Unemployment
Who Exits Unemployment? Institutional Features, Individual Characteristics and Chances of Getting a Job. A Comparison of Britain and Italy
PART 3 : UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION
The Effects of Employment Precarity and Unemployment on Social Isolation
United in Employment, United in Unemployment? Employment and Unemployment of Couples in the European Union
Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being
Gender and the Experience of Unemployment
Public Attitudes to Unemployment in Different Welfare Regimes
CONCLUSION
The Social Regulation of Unemployment
