Pritisak i zapošljavanje nezaposlenih osoba
Strain and Employment of Unemployed Persons

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates through the category of anomy and theory of strain the effect of unemployed status on the normative system of unemployed persons. The social selective character of employment and the inability to find a job gives the goal of employment extreme importance, which is reflected in the selection of modes of employment. The central hypothesis investigates whether the disjunction between pronounced aspirations for a job and the inability (or non-expectancy) to be realized in a legal way is statistically connected with the intention to choose illegal options. The investigated model is enriched with some coping process strategies, the category of personal factors of employment is developed, and at the same time the relationship between the regional percentage of unemployment and certain relations in the model is investigated. Although the results of the empirical research do not confirm the correlation between strain and illegitimate options, the findings indicate what unemployed persons are prepared to do to solve their unemployment. For further research, within the above-mentioned theoretical approaches, it is necessary to combine them with new goals, different concepts of the coping process and other nonlegitimate options, which could prove to be heuristically fruitful in explaining particular forms of deviation in the transitional environment of Croatia.

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