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Book The Risk of Marginalization in the Labour Market

Download or read book The Risk of Marginalization in the Labour Market written by Michael Rosholm and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resisting Marginalization

Download or read book Resisting Marginalization written by Duncan Gallie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground by bringing together recent research into the determinants of marginalization risks for the unemployed and research into new social policies for combating marginalization. It examines the major controversies about how far entrapment in unemployment is due to resource constraints, motivational problems, or skill deficiency. It examines the forms that new policies have taken, the way they vary between EU countries, and the effects they have had on the life experiences of the unemployed. Its central concern is how far the new policies developed in the 1990s, in particular the spread of activation and welfare-to-work policies, address the major sources of vulnerability of the unemployed. The chapters draw on the results of a number of major comparative research programmes funded by the European Commission. These provide for the first time rigorous comparative data across a range of different countries. They bring together the insights of researchers from different disciplines: economists, jurists, social-psychologists, and social policy analysts. The book shows that while the new policy initiatives helped to mitigate the severity of the experience of unemployment, they were far from providing an adequate response to the underlying factors that put people at risk of marginalization. These were primarily due to skill deficiencies that were rooted in disadvantages that people experienced when they were young and in the persisting inequalities in training opportunities during people's work careers. The case is made for a major new policy initiative to improve the quality of working life of the low-skilled and their opportunities for skill development.

Book Education  Work and Social Change

Download or read book Education Work and Social Change written by R. Simmons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of participation and non-participation on the margins of education and employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.

Book Inclusion and Exclusion  Unemployment and Non standard Employment in Europe

Download or read book Inclusion and Exclusion Unemployment and Non standard Employment in Europe written by Jens Lind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, this text is influenced by two sets of theories, namely regulation theories and theories on social citizenship. Regulation theories are mainly used as an overall guideline - a frame of reference - in the analysis of changed, unchanged and new types of integration and differentiation in working life and its social modes of regulations. The perspective on social citizenship is concentrated on participation in working life - what are the changes in working life (unemployment and non-standard employment) and what are the conditions and the outcome of social regulation? These questions are thematized in two articles and analyzed in chapter 7 which focuses on four welfare state models represented by Portugal, England, the Netherlands and Denmark. The book aims to contribute material on labour market segmentation and social policies to combat labour market marginalization in four countries studies representing typical European welfare state models.

Book Living on the Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Kieselbach
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-11-11
  • ISBN : 3663106748
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Living on the Edge written by Thomas Kieselbach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the European research project YUSEDER ("Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Dimensions, Subjective Experiences and Institutional Responses in Six Countries of the EU"), supported by the EU Commission (Directorate General Research) as a part of the programme Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER), addresses the question of what effects long-term unemployment has on young people in regard of their feeling of belonging to society. Does long-term unemployment imply the risk of social exclusion for young people? How does social exclusion develop, and which factors counteract the processes of exclusion? Thus far, research into unemployment has seldom performed comparative studies. This interdisciplinary project in six European countries has conducted for the first time a qualitative study with 300 long-term unemployment young people from age 20 to 25. The inquiry was carried out in the three northern European countries Sweden, Belgium and Germany and in the three southern European countries Greece, Italy and Spain. Researches from psychology, sociology, public health and psychiatry participated in this research project coordinated by Thomas Kieselbach (University of Bremen, Germany). The volumes in the series published up to now within the YUSEDER project represent a state of the art overview of the topic of youth unemployment and health (volume 1) and youth unemployment and social exclusion (volume 2) in the six participating countries. This third volume focuses on the personal experiences and assessments of young people affected by unemployment. Besides presenting the country-specific manifestations of social exclusion, this new study identifies those important key mechanisms which increase (vulnerability factors) or reduce (protective factors) the risk of social exclusion. The results of this interdisciplinary comparative study represent an important basis for conceptualising future intervention measures in the European Union which could redu

Book Youth unemployment and social exclusion in Europe

Download or read book Youth unemployment and social exclusion in Europe written by Hammer, Torild and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book presents the findings of the first comparative study of unemployed youth in Europe using a large and original data set. It addresses some of the key questions around the issue including: How do young people cope with unemployment? Does unemployment lead to social exclusion of young people, implying a withdrawal from society, financial deprivation and social isolation? Drawing on a research sample of over 17000 young unemployed people in ten European countries, the book examines how different welfare strategies and labour market policies in different countries influence the risk of social exclusion among unemployed youth.

Book Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe

Download or read book Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe written by Unt, Marge and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social exclusion of young people and derives crucial new policy recommendations. Contributors offer fresh insights into areas including youth well-being, health, leaving home and risks of poverty.

Book Mental Health and Work Sick on the Job  Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work

Download or read book Mental Health and Work Sick on the Job Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to identify the knowledge gaps and begin to narrow them by reviewing evidence on the main challenges and barriers to better integrating people with mental illness in the world of work.

Book Gender Inequalities in the Risks of Poverty and Social Exclusion for Disadvantaged Groups in Thirty European Countries

Download or read book Gender Inequalities in the Risks of Poverty and Social Exclusion for Disadvantaged Groups in Thirty European Countries written by Danièle Meulders and published by Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is based on national reports conducted in 30 European countries. It discusses gender inequalities in the risks of poverty and social exclusion in the case of disadvantaged groups. Specifically it focuses on issues such as the intersection of gender and age in risks of social exclusion, gender differences in rates of long-term unemployment and inactivity, rural poverty and the exclusion of disabled people, the risks of social exclusion and poverty faced by lone parents, the intersection of gender and ethnicity in social exclusion in the case of Roma. [Ed.]

Book Social Exclusion in European Welfare States

Download or read book Social Exclusion in European Welfare States written by R. J. A. Muffels and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Exclusion in European Welfare States focuses on the complex relationship between economic welfare, labor market performance and social inclusion/exclusion. The contributors to the volume examine in detail the alleged trade-off between the social and economic capabilities of a society and their impact on the well-being of the citizens. Furthermore, they identify welfare regimes whose policies are more balanced in terms of prioritizing economic as well as social goals and, hence, are more successful in promoting social inclusion along with faster growth.

Book Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives

Download or read book Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives written by Karen R. Foster and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth. Clearly something needs to change, but current social-assistance models are based on problematic assumptions about the lives and possible trajectories of "risky" young people. Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives explores the difficulties many marginalized young people encounter with the "support system" available to them, as well as the social forces that push them to the margins in the first place. Drawn from interviews with forty-five patrons of a youth drop-in centre, this important work resituates the nexus of the problem from the identification of individual "risk factors" to the recognition of the contradictions and barriers contained in the very social-aid structures that are meant to bring their target populations back in to the fold of "normal" society. Intervention is indeed necessary, but more to challenge the prevailing structures that incorrectly presume how youth themselves interpret risk, poverty, and, most important of all, their own potential.

Book Youth and the Labour Market in Romania

Download or read book Youth and the Labour Market in Romania written by Vasilica Ciucă and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to improve the quality and efficiency of youth employment, this book examines the cases of the Romanian labour market and of youth employment performance. Recent developments in the labour market participation of young people indicate an accentuation of labour market segmentation and a decrease in job security for young people, with the risk of exclusion and marginalization, fuelled by longer transition processes towards decent employment. This transition may seem clear when one looks at two aspects: education and employment. The challenge the transition towards employment presents is faced by all, regardless of one’s level of education, as employment security is uncertain. The situation young people find themselves in when they finish school and have no job opportunities is a rather delicate one as society offers no “safety nets”. This book, as well as others in the ADAPT Labour Studies Book-Series, explains the challenges young people deal with while playing a vital role within the community they live in. As Kafka has been quoted as saying, “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old”. Therefore, young people, and those young at heart, perform an integral role in society, and they must be well integrated to enable their successful engagement within their communities.

Book Workers at the Margins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shruti Sannon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Workers at the Margins written by Shruti Sannon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gig economy, workers complete one-off tasks for compensation via digitally-mediated, on-demand labor platforms. While demographic data indicates that many gig workers are economically precarious and belong to marginalized social groups, little is known about how marginalization impacts their experiences. To fill this gap in research, this dissertation presents two qualitative studies on the opportunities and risks presented by the gig economy for workers who are economically and socially marginalized. The first study examines how workers navigate privacy-related risks in crowdwork in light of their economic dependence on such work. This study demonstrates that economic considerations are a key factor in how workers decide whether or not to complete privacy-invasive tasks, and problematically, that financial need can compel workers to complete risky tasks despite their privacy concerns. Further, I show that managing privacy in crowdwork constitutes a significant amount of unpaid, invisible labor that must also be shouldered by workers. The second study focuses on workers with disabilities and their experience with a wide variety of gig work, including ridesharing, delivery services, freelancing, and crowdwork. This study finds that gig work can offer disabled workers several benefits that are lacking in traditional employment, but that they also face several disability-related challenges in accessing and completing work. Navigating these challenges involves a large amount of invisible labor, and workers' dependence on income from gig work can further disenfranchise them and restrict their ability to exercise discretion in the tasks they choose to complete. Together, this dissertation identifies a key tension: gig work can be a vital source of needed income for workers who face broader economic and social exclusion, but at the same time, marginalization orders and shapes several aspects of how workers complete and experience gig work. I show how the power asymmetries on labor platforms and broader marginalizing forces combine to present workers with both new and amplified risks and challenges. Further, workers have to perform a significant amount of invisible labor to mitigate these challenges, and I show how the burden of this labor is acutely felt by workers who are already marginalized. I also call attention to how many workers can face complicated intersectional challenges based on multiple marginalized identities, such as along the lines of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and socioeconomic status. This dissertation makes three main contributions. First, I provide an empirical understanding of the opportunities and challenges that come with working on digitally-mediated labor platforms for workers who are economically precarious, have one or more disabilities, and/or hold multiple marginalized identities. Second, I add to theoretical understandings of the power asymmetries on labor platforms and their consequences, focusing on the impact on marginalized workers. Finally, based on my findings, I put forth several suggestions for how labor platforms can be designed to be more inclusive for workers with diverse needs and backgrounds.

Book Social Consequences of Labour Market Marginalisation in Germany

Download or read book Social Consequences of Labour Market Marginalisation in Germany written by Carlotta Giustozzi and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Buch untersucht die sozialen Folgen von Arbeitsmarktmarginaliserung für nahe soziale Beziehungen und gesellschaftliche Partizipation in Deutschland. Dabei zeigen Mehrebenenmodelle und Längsschnittanalysen, die individuelle, haushaltsbezogene und regionale sozio-ökonomische Faktoren analysieren, dass finanzielle Schwierigkeiten nur marginal soziale Exklusion erklären können. Vielmehr sind soziale Rollen, Normen und Identität ausschlaggebend für eine Arbeitsmarktmarginalisierung.

Book Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe

Download or read book Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe written by Duncan Gallie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Social Consequences of Labour Market Marginalisation in Germany

Download or read book Social Consequences of Labour Market Marginalisation in Germany written by Carlotta Giustozzi and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the social consequences of labour market marginalisation for close social relations and social participation in Germany. Multilevel models and individual fixed effects analyses show that material security is an overrated factor. While financial strain failed to explain social exclusion, social identity and normative expectations shaped effects of labour market marginalisation.

Book Concepts and Strategies for Combating Social Exclusion

Download or read book Concepts and Strategies for Combating Social Exclusion written by Jordi Estivill and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of human beings the world over survive in conditions of poverty and social exclusion, and this is unlikely to change in the years to come. This grave situation affects the whole of humanity, which cannot and must not shut its eyes to it. Social exclusion is spreading so much that it is becoming one of the keys to understanding the economic and social situation of the world today. This book attempts to deciper the concept of social exclusion. It aims to identify, analyse and measure exclusion and make it more visible. It also aims to provide a detailed overview of those involved and their initiatives.