Bücher der Reihe Psychologie Sozialer Ungleichheit

"Project 'Social Convoy and Sustainable Employability: Innovative Strategies for Outplacement/Replacement Counseling (SOCOSE)"--Introd.

Erwerbslosigkeit stellt eine zentrale gesellschaftliche Herausforderung dar - auch für den Bereich Gesundheit. Erwerbslosigkeit und Gesundheit stehen in wechselseitigem Zusammenhang und die Gesundheitsberichterstattung darüber ist noch fragmentiert. Ziel der Studie ist es, durch Analysen des repräsentativen Mikrozensus 2005 Erkenntnisse über Krankheitsrisiken von Arbeitsuchenden, ihre Effekte auf die Arbeitsmarktintegration sowie Ansatzpunkte für die Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung zu gewinnen. Der Autor gibt dabei einen umfassenden Überblick über theoretische Erklärungsansätze der Gesundheitsbelastungen durch Arbeitsplatzverlust und den Stand der empirischen Forschung.

Addresses the links between unemployment, precariousness work and health risks from various scientific frames of reference as well as those of policy-makers. This title evaluates the contributions of various projects, programmes and standard public services for persons at risk of labour market exclusion.

Thomas Kieselbach This volume is the third publication of the project "Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Objective Dimensions, Subjective Experiences and Innovative Institutional Responses in Six European Countries" (YUSEDER) supported by the Directorate Gen­ eral Research of the European Commission (DG Research) within the Targeted Socio­ Economic Research Programme (TSER) of the 4th Framework Programme. The YU­ SEDER research project tries to answer some crucial questions with regard to the risk of social exclusion associated with long-term youth unemployment. The first volume de­ scribed the available empirical evidence on youth unemployment and health in the par­ ticipating six countries of the EU\ the second volume drew attention to the concept of social exclusion in the context of youth unemployment as well as to vulnerable groups 2 of young unemployed people ¿ The 3'" YUSEDER volume includes the qualitative analyses of 300 young long­ term unemployed people (20-25 years old) regarding their experiences with their own unemployment and related processes of social exclusion in six European countries. The aim of the study is to analyse the content and extent of social exclusion among young unemployed persons including the specific courses and developments of processes of social exclusion, key mechanisms leading from unemployment to social exclusion (pro­ tective factors and vulnerability factors) and individual coping mechanisms with regard to unemployment and the risk of social exclusion.

This volume draws attention to the concept of social exclusion in the context of unemployment as well as to vulnerable groups of young unemployed people with regard to social exclusion in six European countries. It is based upon the results of an international research project (Youth Unemployment an Social Exclusion: Dimensions, Subjective Experiences, and Innovative Institutional Responses in Six Countries of the EU) (YUSEDER) conducted in the framework of the research programme Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER) of the European Commission. Partners from six European countries with differing scientific backgrounds (health psychology, public health research, psychatry, industrial sociology, medical sociology) from six European countries participated in this project.The concept of social exclusion has gained an impressive importance in the European policy debate. The refused entry to the labor market for members of the younger generation increases the risk of social exclusion for the affected youth as well as for the social fabric in general. The contributions of this volume illustrate an initial approach to analysing and comparing theoretical reflections about the meaning and extent of social exclusion for young unemployed people from a comparative perspective. The research has been carried out in three Northern European countries (Sweden, Germany, Belgium) an three Southern European Countries (Spain, Italy, Greece). For each country a specific national report ist presented.The comparative section describes and attempts to explain the similarities and dissimilarities between countries having rather diverse histrorical and social understandings of being socially excluded or marginalised für young people

Erwerbslosigkeit ist nach wie vor ein vordringlich anzugehendes soziales Problem. Ein nennenswerter längerfristiger Trend einer rückläufigen Entwicklung der Arbeitslosenzahlen ist zumindest in Deutschland gegenwärtig kaum festzustellen. Was sind die Ursachen hierfür? Sind z.B. zu geringe Investitionen der Unternehmen, fehlende Lohnflexibilität oder die Diskriminierung bestimmter Gruppen hierfür verantwortlich? Dies sind einige der Fragen, die im vorliegenden Band untersucht werden.

Thomas Kieselbach 1 Object and organisation of the study The present volume contains the first results of an international research project on youth unemployment and social exclusion describing the most up-to-date research of youth unemployment and health in six European countries. The project "Youth Unem­ ployment and Social Exclusion: Objective Dimensions, Subjective Experiences, and In­ novative Institutional Responses in Six European Countries" (YUSEDER) is supported by the Research Directorate General of the European Commission (DG XII) within the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme (TSER) of the 4th Framework Pro­ gramme. The YUSEDER research project tries to answer some crucial questions with regard to the risk of social exclusion associated with long-term youth unemployment. The European Commission launched a call for proposals looking for new know­ ledge of the key mechanisms linking the experience of long-term youth unemployment to various dimensions of social disintegration, conceived of in the theoretical frame­ work of social exclusion. In this context, not only the mechanisms exacerbating the stress of unemployment (vulnerability factors) but also the protective mechanisms pre­ venting or reducing the risk of social exclusion have to be taken into consideration. The second research question relates to new options of institutional and political inter­ vention and counteraction in different national contexts. These analyses will be underta­ ken in three Northern European countries (Sweden, Belgium, Germany) and three Sou­ thern European countries (Spain, Italy, Greece).