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Equal opportunities, true options or hidden unemployment? A comparative perspective on labour‐market marginality
Author(s) -
MalmbergHeimonen Ira,
Julkunen Ilse
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2397.00206
Subject(s) - unemployment , feeling , welfare , perspective (graphical) , work (physics) , demographic economics , value (mathematics) , labour economics , economics , youth unemployment , psychology , social psychology , economic growth , market economy , mechanical engineering , machine learning , engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science
Previous studies have shown that women generally adjust to unemployment better than men. This study shows that young women value work equally as highly as men, and have negative feelings when unemployed, which indicates the existence of a closed gender gap. However, children have a different influence on men’s and women’s unemployment experiences. Being a parent increases job‐search activity and work involvement among men. On the other hand, children moderate negative experiences of unemployment among women, and they decrease their job‐search activity and work involvement. Being a parent increases labour‐market marginality among young unemployed women. For young men it is a motivational factor for searching for and getting a job. The comparison shows furthermore that patterns of re‐employment vary in the involved countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Scotland. They reflect differences in the overall unemployment situation in the countries and the welfare strategies applied.