Youth unemployment and society / edited by Anne C. Petersen and Jeylan T. Mortimer.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge university press, 2006.Description: xiii, 323 p. ill. 24 cmISBN: - 9780521028578 (pbk.)
- 0521028574 (pbk.)
- 331.1373 PET
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, 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.
Selected conference papers.
Originally published: 1994.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Investment in Youth
- 1 Youth, unemployment and marginality: the problem and the solution
- 2 Social capital, human capital and investment in youth
- 3 When may social capital influence children's school performance?
- Reply to John Modell
- Reply to James S. Coleman
- Part II Macrosocial Perspectives
- 4 The historical context of transition to work and youth unemployment
- 5 The causes of persistently high unemployment
- Part III Individual Perspectives
- 6 Concepts of causation, tests of causal mechanisms and implications for intervention
- 7 Individual differences as precursors of youth unemployment
- 8 The psychosocial consequences of youth unemployment
- Part IV Social Consequences and Interventions
- 9 Societal consequences of youth unemployment
- 10 Social roles for youth: interventions in unemployment
- Part V Implications for Research
- 11 Youth: work and unemployment - a European perspective for research
- 12 Conclusions: social structure and psychosocial dimensions of youth unemployment
- Index