The Impact Of Networks On Unemployment

Author : J. M. Hurst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349668908

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The Impact of Networks on Unemployment by J. M. Hurst Pdf

This book investigates why networks, some with joined-up governance remits, appeared ineffective in handling neighbourhood unemployment even in periods when the national unemployment levels dropped. It deploys a multi-theoretical and methodological framework to investigate this empirical puzzle, and to test and analyse the causal factors influencing network outcomes. Chapters examine network concepts, network theories, outcome indicators, the historical infrastructure and management of unemployment policy, and governing network trends in post-war urban regeneration interventions. Comparative network case studies offer empirical evidence and a high degree of local variation. Mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative approaches), including social network analysis, uncover formal and informal networks, and eighty-six interviews in two English local authorities with persistent unemployment, give voice to network practitioner experiences. Findings explain why sub-optimal network outcomes prevail and operational difficulties persist on the ground. Students and academics, professionals and activists can use the results to challenge network governance theories and the policy status-quo.

Author : Simone Baglioni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230391437

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Civil Society Organizations, Unemployment, and Precarity in Europe by Simone Baglioni Pdf

This book provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment and precarity. It illustrates how crucial civil society organizations are for the inclusion of the young unemployed, mainly in two ways: by delivering services and by advocating policy.

Author : Andreas Klärner,Markus Gamper,Sylvia Keim-Klärner,Irene Moor,Holger von der Lippe,Nico Vonneilich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030977221

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Social Networks and Health Inequalities by Andreas Klärner,Markus Gamper,Sylvia Keim-Klärner,Irene Moor,Holger von der Lippe,Nico Vonneilich Pdf

This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities. It also shows that much research is needed on the precise factors and the social and socio-psychological mechanisms that are at play in creating and cementing social inequalities in health behaviours. While social support and social relations have received considerable attention within social and behavioural science research on health inequalities, this book considers the whole network of interpersonal relations, structures and influence mechanisms. This is the perspective of the social network analytical approach which has recently gained much attention in health research. The chapters of this book cover state-of-the-art research, open research questions, and perspectives for future research. The book provides network analyses on health inequalities from the perspective of sociology, psychology, and public health and is of interest to a wide range of scholars, students and practitioners trying to understand how health inequalities are reproduced across generations.

Author : Jon Clark (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0750705124

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James S. Coleman by Jon Clark (Ph. D.) Pdf

James S. Coleman was one of a distinguished generation of sociology students who passed through the Columbia Sociology Department in the 1940s and `50s. This book critically debates his work and his contribution to society and the social sciences more generally. It consists of 18 major papers by 20 authors from six countries on a range of themes. The volume is framed by an extended editorial introduction reflecting on the five- year exchange of correspondence between James Coleman and the editor, together with two of Coleman's own works.

Author : Gabrielle Demange,Myrna Wooders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521842719

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Group Formation in Economics by Gabrielle Demange,Myrna Wooders Pdf

Broad and diverse ranges of activities are conducted within and by organized groups of individuals, including political, economic and social activities. These activities have become a subject of intense interest in economics and game theory. Some of the topics investigated in this 2005 collection are models of networks of power and privilege, trade networks, co-authorship networks, buyer-seller networks with differentiated products, and networks of medical innovation and the adaptation of new information. Other topics are social norms on punctuality, clubs and the provision of club goods and public goods, research and development and collusive alliances among corporations, and international alliances and trading agreements. While relatively recent, the literature on game theoretic studies of group formation in economics is already vast. This volume provides an introduction to this important literature on game-theoretic treatments of situations with networks, clubs, and coalitions, including some applications.

Author : Neal, Zachary P.,Rozenblat, Céline
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788114714

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Handbook of Cities and Networks by Neal, Zachary P.,Rozenblat, Céline Pdf

This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives.

Author : Bernd Brandl,Bengt Larsson,Alex Lehr,Oscar Molina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000615319

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Employment Relations as Networks by Bernd Brandl,Bengt Larsson,Alex Lehr,Oscar Molina Pdf

Traditional approaches in the wide field of employment relations focused on a small and clearly delineated set of actors, such as trade unions and employers’ organizations, operating within the constraints given by formal, nationally confined institutions. It is becoming increasingly clear that traditional approaches are insufficiently able to account for employment relations processes and outcomes in a world wherein formal institutions are being rapidly transformed and partially dissolved, national boundaries become porous, and the sheer number of actors involved is increasing substantially. A shift in perspective is necessary, past the nationally bounded actor-institution dichotomy, towards an understanding of employment relations as fundamentally mediated by complex and emergent networks that connect a multitude of actors within and between countries. ? This volume provides a seminal starting point for such a paradigm shift by applying theories and methodologies from social network analysis to the study of employment relations. It develops a theoretical toolkit of mechanisms that operate within networks and shape employment relations processes and outcomes, such as wages, labour market policies and labour conflicts. It brings together insights from various projects that investigate the structure, functioning and impact of networks in employment relations through quantitative and qualitative methods. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of employment relations across business and management, economics, political science, and sociology disciplines, as well as those interested in social networks. Managers, trade unions, employers’ organizations and state authorities at national and international levels will find it helpful in understanding how networks shape their world.

Author : Irina Tomescu-Dubrow,Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow,Anna Kiersztyn,Katarzyna Andrejuk,Marta Kołczyńska,Kazimierz M. Slomczynski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030136475

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The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow,Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow,Anna Kiersztyn,Katarzyna Andrejuk,Marta Kołczyńska,Kazimierz M. Slomczynski Pdf

This book describes the experience of joblessness and unemployment in contemporary Poland. It does so by combining qualitative and quantitative data from a special project conducted in Poland after the Great Recession and the long-term Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) to describe the lives of the jobless: women and men currently out of work, the recently re-employed, and housewives. The book uses a class and inequality perspective to investigate how these women and men became jobless, how they look for and find employment, their household and social activities, and their political participation. It contextualizes these experiences with a description of Poland’s economy, labor market and employment policies after the fall of Communism and builds on the active interviewing and social constructionist approaches to explore the complex interviewer-respondent relationship.

Author : Marco Giugni,Jasmine Lorenzini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349951420

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Jobless Citizens by Marco Giugni,Jasmine Lorenzini Pdf

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book shows specifically how the relationship between unemployment and the political engagement of unemployed youth is mediated by a number of factors: their socioeconomic status and more generally their individual background, their level of deprivation and the associated degree of subjective well-being; the social capital that unemployed youth draw from involvement in voluntary associations and interpersonal networks and relations, and the political learning stemming from interactions with welfare institutions and their perception of such interactions. Students and scholars in areas including Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Youth Studies and Social Policy will find this study of interest.

Author : Robert Strathdee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351899536

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Social Exclusion and the Remaking of Social Networks by Robert Strathdee Pdf

How do young people make effective transitions into work? This question has occupied the minds of parents and young people, and also researchers and policy makers, as they face up to challenges presented by globalization and technological change. The foremost governmental response to this challenge has been to expand training systems to improve young people's qualifications. However, it is clear that for many this response has failed to deliver the promised rewards and the legitimation of this strategy has been exhausted. This book explores developments in training and in social welfare to show that third way administrations in England and New Zealand are reconnecting young people to the labour market through creating social networks. Social Exclusion and the Remaking of Social Networks describes how networks are being remade by the state in commodified forms.

Author : Duncan Gallie,Serge Paugam
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191584763

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Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe by Duncan Gallie,Serge Paugam Pdf

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.

Author : M. Giugni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230304208

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The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe by M. Giugni Pdf

This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.

Author : Sebastian Bähr
Publisher : wbv Media GmbH & Company KG
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783763941179

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Regional mobility of unemployed workers by Sebastian Bähr Pdf

Moderne Arbeitsmärkte erfordern ein hohes Maß an Flexibilität von Arbeitskräften und insbesondere von Arbeitslosen. Dabei kommt der Bereitschaft zur regionalen Mobilität im Zuge der tiefgreifenden Hartz-Reformen des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes eine zentrale Rolle zu. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht diese Forschungsarbeit die Bedeutung überregionaler Mobilität im Stellensuchprozess von Arbeitslosen. Basierend auf innovativen experimentellen Forschungsdesigns, reichhaltigen administrativen und Befragungsdaten und unter Verwendung aktueller ökonometrischer Analysen leistet Sebastian Bähr einen wichtigen Beitrag zur aktuellen Debatte über die Wirkung von Flexibilisierung auf soziale Ungleichheit am Arbeitsmarkt.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Combat Poverty Agency
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Poverty Briefings 1-17 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Fullbrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134499779

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Intersubjectivity in Economics by Edward Fullbrook Pdf

Traditional economics treats the defining subjective properties of economic agents (tastes, preferences, demands, goals and perceptions) as if they are determined independently of individual and collective relations with other agents. This collection of essays reflects the increasingly common view that economics cannot continue to disregard all economic phenomena inconsistent with this conception. The volume is especially concerned with the idea of intersubjective influences on market outcomes. A team of expert international contributors have been brought together to address the question of intersubjectivity from a variety of perspectives. Using methods of description and analysis they explore the structures and effects of concrete interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity, and develop conceptual and analytical tools for this task. Many of the essays are interdisciplinary in scope and in addition to economics the book should provide valuable lessons in psychology, sociology, social theory, philosophy, political science and history.