Dependencies and Mechanisms of Unemployment and Social Involvement Findings from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) /

• Main Author: Sonnenberg, Bettina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Sciences.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

People’s involvement in social groups and networks constitutes a resource for societies and individuals. More specifically, involvement represents the basis upon which social integration takes place and provides access to material and non-material goods considered to be rewarding for individuals. De...

Table of Contents:

• Social integration and social involvement from a societal and individual perspective
• Social involvement and labor market participation as individual value creation
• The effect of unemployment on social involvement: Main and heterogeneous effects.