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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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. Despite substantial research suggesting that unemployment triggers social exclusion and social isolation, evidence for the causal influence of unemployment on social involvement is limited. Past studies typically have relied on research methods that are unable to address causality. Using long-term panel data from Germany and panel estimation methods, Bettina Sonnenberg investigates the causal effects of unemployment on people’s social involvement. By taking into account selection confounds, she shows that findings from cross-sectional research are misleading and have advanced inaccurate conclusions regarding the social consequences of unemployment.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bettina Sonnenberg is a sociologist and was a Research Associate in the Department of Social Science at the University of Tübingen and at the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dependencies and Mechanisms of Unemployment and Social Involvement
Book Subtitle: Findings from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
Authors: Bettina Sonnenberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05355-0
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-05354-3Published: 27 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-05355-0Published: 18 March 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 239
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations