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framework of medicalization, arguing that the individualization of the social issue of unemployment into a personal trouble of … people as disabled in order to explain their unemployment, medicalization can be seen as an important yet so far neglected … mechanism in understanding how this individualizing enterprise comes about. It is concluded that by medicalizing unemployment …
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-standard work has no negative consequences with respect to later career unemployment or upward and downward mobility. However …, certain negative effects are associated with unemployment at the career start. Moreover, this effect is larger when the … duration of the period of unemployment is longer. Several other hypotheses - about macro-economic effects and about the effects …
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This article reports findings of an exploratory study examining the impact of intermittent partner absence on couple relationships and family life. Drawing on data collected through in-depth interviews with seafarers and their partners, it considers the period when the seafarer is home on leave...
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Orthodox economics blames rigid labor markets and, consequently, high wages for high and persistent unemployment in the … euro-area. This is at odds with stylized facts. Unemployment has remained high despite the fact that wage shares have …
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India is frequently cited as one of the ‘success stories’ of globalization, with respect to its economic growth performance, during the past two and half decades. However, the very pattern of recent growth resulted in regional imbalances, greater inequalities in the control over...
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emphasis of this book is on unemployment (and distribution more generally, including high compensation for finance â …
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This paper examines a single pre-employment training programme for the unemployed. The training aimed to prepare unemployed participants for work on the front-line of telephone call centres. Drawing on participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the paper analyses one area in...
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. Following mention of the disproportionate growth of unemployment in the most deprived types of local areas, it proceeds to …
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No urban economic assessment is complete without an analysis of worklessness in the most deprived neighbourhoods. In Manchester, as in most other cities, there are many neighbourhoods where worklessness rates are persistently high. However, because the analysis usually done is an anonymous...
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During the first decade of the 21st century, China’s top leaders reined in the marketising, commercialising welfare reforms of the 1990s, and recommitted the State to a role in providing social goods. But the governmental and social elites who shape welfare policy are still debating the...
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