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Cultivation of life strategies of long-term unemployed in material distress in regions with high long-term unemployment rate
Cultivation of life strategies of long-term unemployed in material distress in regions with high long-term unemployment rate

Author(s): Peter Jusko
Subject(s): Psychology, Labor relations, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Akademia Nauk Stosowanych w Koninie
Keywords: unemployment; long-term unemployment; material distress; poverty; life strategies; social work; social policy; active labor market measures;

Summary/Abstract: Coping of job loss is very individual and is contingent on several factors. The risk factor in relation to get over long-term unemployment is the existence of poverty, mainly concentrated and generationally reproduced poverty. In our contribution we will discuss the characteristics of life strategies of unem-ployed, the results of research aimed at identifying the causes and conse-quences of long-term unemployment and the use of active labor market measures for long-term unemployed in poverty in the region with high long-term unemployment and the recommendations in relation to the cultivation of life strategies long-term unemployed in material distress.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 225-242
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Slovak