| Overview |
This
project focused on a number of different research questions which would
ultimately help to provide an explanation of the ways in which unemployment
experiences may lead to social marginalisation or exclusion. Marginalisation
was chosen as the leading concept. The main research question was to study
to what degree position on the labour market correlated with other social
circumstances in the life situation of young people.
Research
was centred on the process of getting a job, using event history data to
analyse the transition from unemployment to employment among young people
in nine European countries. This allowed the researchers to compare
across different countries, and therefore between differing institutional
settings, how the employment prospects of young unemployed people were
affected by their personal characteristics such as age, gender and educational
attainment, as well as by previous employment experience and unemployment
duration.
Several
indicators
related to unemployment and political activity were analysed, including
what type of political activity the young people participated in, and political
attitudes measured as the common used left and right scale.
The
project investigated the outcome of long-term unemployment among youth,
based on surveys. (Hammer, 1999, pp. 3,
16f., 21, 22, 31) |