Unemployment without social exclusion: evidence from young people in Eastern Europe
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 1 May 2001
Abstract
Challenges the position that high and persistent unemployment necessarily leads to the formation of socially excluded groups. Presents evidence drawn from studies of people in former communist countries. Suggests that unemployment, even when high will not lead to exclusion except under three conditions, paid work is concentated within standard (permanent, full time) official jobs, job seekers are arranged in “queues” and that the unemployed are regarded by others, and regard themselves as a group apart. States these conditions do not apply in the countries reviewed and therefore the original assumption needs to be reassessed.
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Citation
Roberts, K. (2001), "Unemployment without social exclusion: evidence from young people in Eastern Europe", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 21 No. 4/5/6, pp. 118-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330110789466
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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