Self-placement of the Unemployed in the Social Hierarchy. Evidence from European Countries
Abstract: Unemployment has risen during the recent recession. However, the experience of unemployment varies considerably across European countries (Gallie 2013b). To study the unemployment experience in different European countries, a social exclusion approach was combined with a social stratification approach utilizing a measure of subjective social position which indicates how people perceive their relative position in the social hierarchy. In evaluating their social position people make comparisons within societal contexts. We hypothesize that the country-level economic and institutional context impacts the experience of unemployment, the way people interpret it, and thus affects the subjective social position of the unemployed. Our main goal was to study the impact of different macro-level economic and social characteristics on the subjective social position of the unemployed. We focused on a comparison of the subjective social position of unemployed persons against the remaining popula
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 119-136 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
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In: Edlund, Jonas (Hg.), Bechert, Insa (Hg.), Quandt, Markus (Hg.): Social Inequality in the Eyes of the Public: A Collection of Analyses Based on ISSP Data 1987-2009. 2017. S. 119-136. ISBN 978-3-86819-027-4
- Bibliographic citation
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Social Inequality in the Eyes of the Public: A Collection of Analyses Based on ISSP Data 1987-2009 ; Bd. 17
GESIS-Schriftenreihe ; Bd. 17
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Wirtschaft
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Veröffentlichung
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Köln
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2017
- Creator
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Saar, Ellu
Helemäe, Jelena
Lindemann, Kristina
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Edlund, Jonas
Bechert, Insa
Quandt, Markus
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57580-6
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated
- Saar, Ellu
- Helemäe, Jelena
- Lindemann, Kristina
- Edlund, Jonas
- Bechert, Insa
- Quandt, Markus
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Time of origin
- 2017
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