Living on the Edge: An Empirical Analysis on Long-Term Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion in Europe

ISBN-13: 9783810029294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 476 str.

Thomas Kieselbach;Kees Van Heeringen; Michele La Rosa

Opis

Thomas Kieselbach This volume is the third publication of the project "Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Objective Dimensions, Subjective Experiences and Innovative Institutional Responses in Six European Countries" (YUSEDER) supported by the Directorate Gen eral Research of the European Commission (DG Research) within the Targeted Socio Economic Research Programme (TSER) of the 4th Framework Programme. The YU SEDER research project tries to answer some crucial questions with regard to the risk of social exclusion associated with long-term youth unemployment. The first volume de scribed the available empirical evidence on youth unemployment and health in the par ticipating six countries of the EU the second volume drew attention to the concept of social exclusion in the context of youth unemployment as well as to vulnerable groups 2 of young unemployed people The 3'" YUSEDER volume includes the qualitative analyses of 300 young long term unemployed people (20-25 years old) regarding their experiences with their own unemployment and related processes of social exclusion in six European countries. The aim of the study is to analyse the content and extent of social exclusion among young unemployed persons including the specific courses and developments of processes of social exclusion, key mechanisms leading from unemployment to social exclusion (pro tective factors and vulnerability factors) and individual coping mechanisms with regard to unemployment and the risk of social exclusion."

Spis treści

Executive Summary.- Comparative Report.- Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in six countries of the EU.- National Reports.- Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in Sweden.- Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in Belgium.- Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in Germany.- Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in Greece.- Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in Italy.- Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in Spain.- References.- Annex I: Interview Schedule.- Annex II: Personal Data.- About the authors.

O autorze

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