
Resisting Marginalization
Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union
Duncan Gallie(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 25. March 2004
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-927184-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous tables and figures
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-927184-9 (9780199271849)
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Duncan Gallie
Resisting Marginalization
Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union
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03/2004
Oxford University Press
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Gallie, Duncan (Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
Editor
, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Content
1. Unemployment, Marginalization Risks, and Welfare Policy ; 2. Unemployment, Poverty, and Social Isolation: An Assessment of the Current State of Social Exclusion Theory ; 3. Psychology of Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Youth Unemployment and the Risk of Social Exclusion ; 4. Gender Differences in Employment Commitment Among Unemployed Youth ; 5. What Difference Does a Job Make? The Income Consequences of Joblessness in Europe ; 6. Skills and Unemployment ; 7. Economic Redundancy: The Paradoxes of Exemplary Protection ; 8. The Development of Workfare Within Social Activation Policies ; 9. The Experience of Activation Policies ; 10. Policy Responses to Marginalization: The Changing Role of the EU