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Resisting Marginalization - Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union (Hardcover)
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Resisting Marginalization - Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union (Hardcover)
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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.
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