Publication details
Chudoba, deprivace, sociální vyloučení: nezaměstnaní a pracující chudí
| Title in English | Poverty, deprivation and social exclusion: the unemployed and the working poor |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | material deprivation social exclusion unemployment |
| Description | The purpose of the study is to explore the relationship between the forms of labour market marginalization - understood here in terms of labour market status and job quality on the one hand, and income disadvatage, material deprivation and social exclusion on the other hand. Public policies which aim to improve labour market position as well as the income level of poeple disadvantaged in the labour market are also assessed. We exhaust data of the survey on social exclusion: 2 500 respondents were interviewed who either were welfare benefits recipients in 2004 or considered their situation to be comparable with welfare recipients situation. We show that marginalisation on the labour market is transparent not only in unemployment spells (often repeated and long-term) but at the same time in temporary, low paid and poor quality job positions. The level of incomes of those who are employed in the lowest segment of the labour market and of the unemployed is very similar while deprivation of the unemployed is greater in many respects, in possibilities of influencing the course of life and life opportunities of their own and of their families in particular. We identify underuse of welfare benefits as well as of active measures which might improve the standard of living and human capital of those who are disadvantaged. A part of the disadvantaged remains active on the labour market and perceives work incentives, on the other hand we identify the poverty traps which emerge for the other fraction of those who become discouraged and welfare dependent. |
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