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Patterns and meaning of unemployment
Author(s) -
Therborn G.,
Therborn Göran
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 0907-2055
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2397.1995.tb00092.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , full employment , context (archaeology) , ambiguity , meaning (existential) , government (linguistics) , economics , development economics , labour economics , economic growth , geography , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , psychotherapist
This article introduces the special issue. Unemployment in Argentina, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain is placed in the context of global economics. The end of full employment in Sweden was part of an international deinstitutionalization that connected employment closely to economic growth. The immediate causes of the economic decline and mass unemployment in Sweden were a financial crash and neoliberal government policies. The ambiguity of unemployment in the criteria for evaluating the performance of policy‐makers and three different cultures among unemployed people are outlined. An overview of what is known about the consequences of unemployment in terms of excess illness and mortality is given.