Volunteering and Social Inclusion Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain /

Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations in Germany and Great Britain. On the basis of household panel data, she answers questions such as: Does job loss lead people to give up their volunteer work? Or do peop...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Strauß, Susanne (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften : Imprint: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
Édition:1st ed. 2008.
Collection:Life Course Research,
Sujets:
Business ethics.
Social structure.
Equality.
Sociology.
Business Ethics.
Social Structure.
Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • A theoretical approach to the interrelation between volunteering and unemployment
  • The role of volunteering for labour market integration or exclusion - German and British social policies compared
  • Unemployment and volunteering - previous research revisited
  • Hypotheses
  • Methodological approach: cross-national and longitudinal
  • Empirical results: Interrelations between volunteering and labour market inclusion or exclusion
  • Discussion and conclusion.

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