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The Young Unemployed, Self-Employment and the Mediterraneanisation of Youth Transitions in East-Central Europe
The Young Unemployed, Self-Employment and the Mediterraneanisation of Youth Transitions in East-Central Europe

Author(s): Jochen Tholen
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Nomos Verlag
Keywords: perspectives of young people in Eastern Europe; unemployment in Eastern Europa; social results of transition;

Summary/Abstract: The nightmare scenario of the transition countries producing a first generation of long-term unemployed, disaffected adults, dependent on either welfare or crime, rearing further generations of heavily disadvantaged children, by when, it is feared, the chronically unemployed are likely to have become excluded groups or underclasses. The author tries to evaluate the question, how immanent this scenario really is.

  • Issue Year: 1998
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 151-167
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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