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Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe
Edited by Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam
432 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-829797-0
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Paperback
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25 May 2000
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- Gallie is a leading author in the field
- First major comparative study of the experience of unemployment in Europe.
- An important contribution to the literature on welfare states.
- Makes use of a new major data set which for the first time provides comparative data for all EU societies.
The book is the first major study to examine the implications of differences in welfare regimes for the experience of unemployment in Europe. It is concerned with three central questions about the way such regimes affect the experience of unemployment. The first is how far they protect the quality of life of unemployed people with respect to living standards and the experience of financial hardship. The second is their role in mediating the impact of unemployment on the individual's longer-term position in the labour market, addressing the issue of how far they help to prevent progressive marginalization from
the employment structure as a result of motivational change, skill loss or the growth of discriminatory barriers. The third is how far such regimes mediate the impact of unemployment on social integration in the community, for instance with respect to the maintenance (or rupture) of social networks and the degree of psychological distress experienced by the unemployed.
The book is the product of a major cross-cultural research programme, funded by the European Union (TSER), bringing together teams from eight countries. The emphasis has been on rigorous comparison rather than the all-too-frequent separate country analyses, which usually provide data which differs in format from one country to another. In addition to a systematic comparison of national data sources,
it has been able to make use of a new important data source (the European Community Household Panel) produced by Eurostat which provides directly comparable information for all EU countries.
The study shows that institutional and cultural differences have vital implications for the experience of unemployment. While welfare policies affect in an important way the pervasiveness of poverty, it is above all the patterns of family structure and the culture of sociability in a society that affect vulnerability to social isolation. The book concludes by developing a new perspective for understanding the risk of social exclusion.Readership: Scholars and students of sociology, business, sociology,
social policy, European studies, labour studies, economics, policy analysts, and policy makers.
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Edited by Duncan Gallie, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, and Serge Paugam, Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Professor of Sociology, Institut d' Estudes Politiques de Paris Contributors:
Susanne Alm is a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm.; Paolo Barbieri is a Research Officer at the University of Trento, Italy.; Fabrizio Bernardi is a Research Officer at the University of Trento, Italy.; Ivano Bison is a Research Officer at the University of Trento, Italy.; Paul de Graaf is a Research Officer at the
University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.; Philippe De Vreyer (current position to be confirmed); Gosta Esping-Anderson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy.; Torben Fridberg is a consultant at the Danish National Institute for Social Research.; Richard Hauser is Professor of Social Policy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt; Azhar Hussain (current position to be confirmed); Sheila Jacobs is a Research Officer at Nuffield College, Oxford.; Richard Layte is a Research Fellow at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and was formerly a Research Officer at Nuffield College, Oxford.; Henrik Levin (current position to be confirmed) and was formerly a Research Officer at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm.; Fran McGinnity is is a Research
Officer at Nuffield College, Oxford.; Brian Nolan is a Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.; Lisbeth Pedersen is a consultant at the Danish National Institute of Social Research.; Niels Ploug is Director of Research at the Danish National Institute of Social Research.; Helen Russell is a Research Fellow at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and was formerly a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.; Antonio Schizzerotto is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy.; Chris Whelan is a Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.; Hanna Weise is a Research Officer at the Danish National Institute of Social Research.; Michael White is a Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, London.;
Maarten Wolbers (current position to be confirmed).; Jean-Paul Zoyem is a Research Officer at the National Institute for Social Statistics, France.
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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
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1: Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam: The Experience of Unemployment in Europe: The Debate
PART 1: UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY
2: Richard Hauser and Brian Nolan: Unemployment and Poverty: Change over Time
3: Duncan Gallie, Sheila Jacobs and Serge Paugam: Poverty and Financial Hardship among the Unemployed
4: Ivano Bison and Gosta Esping-Andersen: Unemployment and Income Packaging among European Youth
5: Brian Nolan, Richard Hauser and Jean-Paul Zoyem: The Changing Effects of Social Protection on Poverty
PART 2: UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET MARGINALISATION
6: Duncan Gallie and Susanne Alm: Unemployment, Gender and Attitudes to Work
7: Philippe De Vreyer, Richard Layte, Maarten Wolbers and Azhar Hussain: The Permanent Effects of Labour Market Entry in Times of High Unemployment
8: Richard Layte, Henrik Levin, Azhar Hussain and Maarten Wolbers: Unemployment and Cumulative Disadvantage in the Labour Market
9: Lisbeth Pedersen, Hanne Weise, Sheila Jacobs and Michael White: Poverty and the Employment of Lone Mothers
10: # Paolo Barbieri, with Serge Paugam and Helen Russell: Social Capital and Exits from Unemployment
11: Fabrizio Bernardi, Richard Layte, Antonio Schizzerotto and Sheila Jacobs: 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: Serge Paugam and Helen Russell: The Effects of Employment Precarity and Unemployment on Social Isolation
13: Paul M. de Graaf and Wout C. Ultee: United in Employment, United in Unemployment? Employment and Unemployment of Couples in the European Union
14: Christopher Whelan and Frances McGinnity: Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being
15: Helen Russell and Paolo Barbieri: Gender and the Experience of Unemployment
16: Torben Fridberg and Niels Ploug: Public Attitudes to Unemployment in Different Welfare Regimes
CONCLUSION
Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam: The Social Regulation of Unemployment
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