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Author:   Duncan Gallie (Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford) ,  Serge Paugam (Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Professor of Sociology, Institut d' Estudes Politiques de Paris)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9780198297970

ISBN 10:   0198297971
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   01 June 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Experience of Unemployment in Europe: The Debate ; PART 1: UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY ; 2. Unemployment and Poverty: Change over Time ; 3. Poverty and Financial Hardship among the Unemployed ; 4. Unemployment and Income Packaging among European Youth ; 5. The Changing Effects of Social Protection on Poverty ; PART 2: UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET MARGINALISATION ; 6. Unemployment, Gender and Attitudes to Work ; 7. The Permanent Effects of Labour Market Entry in Times of High Unemployment ; 8. Unemployment and Cumulative Disadvantage in the Labour Market ; 9. Poverty and the Employment of Lone Mothers ; 10. Social Capital and Exits from Unemployment ; 11. 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 ; 12. The Effects of Employment Precarity and Unemployment on Social Isolation ; 13. United in Employment, United in Unemployment? Employment and Unemployment of Couples in the European Union ; 14. Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being ; 15. Gender and the Experience of Unemployment ; 16. Public Attitudes to Unemployment in Different Welfare Regimes ; CONCLUSION ; The Social Regulation of Unemployment

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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 European Sociological Review 18/06/2002

Author Information

Duncan Gallie is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Serge Paugam is a Directeur at the CNRS and a member of the Laboratoire de sociologie quantitative, CREST, INSEE, France.

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