Youth Unemployment and Society
- Editors:
- Anne C. Petersen, University of Minnesota
- Jeylan T. Mortimer, University of Minnesota
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521028578
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As societies become more technically advanced and jobs require more expertise, young people are forced into a prolonged state of social marginality. Employment during adolescence could provide significant experiences for growth into later work roles, but most societies are not equipped to provide adolescents with meaningful work experience. In Youth Unemployment and Society, a group of historians, psychologists, economists and sociologists provide a cross-national examination of trends in youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe. Assessing the causes of aggregate societal unemployment rates, the authors address factors that make individuals more vulnerable to unemployment and consider the developmental consequences of this experience. The volume also examines how persistently high rates of youth unemployment affect society's values, beliefs, and institutions.
Read more- Youth unemployment is an increasingly prevalent problem throughout the industrialized world
- Provides an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study
- Suitable as a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate use
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"The volume offers not only comprehensive reviews and interpretations of relevant literature, but also methodological and theoretical challenges to social scientists who work on these problems. The conclusions drawn throughout are well supported by the latest scientific research on the determining, mediating, and moderating factors affecting unemployment in Europe and North America. The book provides analyses of the success of national programs and systems designed to alleviate unemployment or prevent it from becoming a personal and societal problem." Leann M. Tigges, Contemporary Sociology
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521028578
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.528kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus. 11 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword Klaus J. Jacobs
Introduction Jeylan T. Mortimer
Part I. Investment in Youth:
1. Youth, unemployment and marginality: the problem and the solution Laura E. Hess, Anne C. Petersen and Jeylan T. Mortimer
2. Social capital, human capital and investment in youth James S. Coleman
3. When may social capital influence children's school performance? John Modell
Reply to John Modell James S. Coleman
Reply to James S. Coleman John Modell
Part II. Macrosocial Perspectives:
4. The historical context of transition to work and youth unemployment Helmut Fend
5. The causes of persistently high unemployment Michael White and David J. Smith
Part III. Individual Perspectives:
6. Concepts of causation, tests of causal mechanisms and implications for intervention Michael Rutter
7. Individual differences as precursors of youth unemployment Jeylan T. Mortimer
8. The psychosocial consequences of youth unemployment Adrian Furnham
Part IV. Social Consequences and Interventions:
9. Societal consequences of youth unemployment Hannie te Grotenhuis and Frans Meijers
10. Social roles for youth: interventions in unemployment Stephen F. Hamilton
Part V. Implications for Research:
11. Youth: work and unemployment - a European perspective for research Hans Bertram
12. Conclusions: social structure and psychosocial dimensions of youth unemployment Walter R. Heinz
Index.
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