1st Edition
The Impact of Losing Your Job Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany
By Martin Ehlert
Copyright 2016
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering the labour market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income,... Read more
1. Introduction, 2. Life Courses and Trigger Events: Theoretical Considerations, 3. Welfare State Institutions and Labor Market Trends, 4. Data and Methods, 5. The Incidence of Job Loss and Unemployment, 6. Income Trajectories After Job Loss, 7. Household Strategies to Buffer Job Loss, 8. Conclusion
Biography
Martin Ehlert is a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He has recently published journal articles in Social Science Research, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.
