Journal
WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 3-20Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0950017020967903
Keywords
employment; gender; gender roles; loneliness; marginalization; poverty; social capital; social exclusion; social isolation; unemployment
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- German Research Foundation (DFG)
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This study used longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the impact of unemployment on the risk of social isolation. The results showed that unemployment had an isolating effect on men, particularly those who experienced long-term unemployment and had limited contact with friends and family. However, there was no such effect found for women, short-term unemployment, or non-participation in civic associations. Additionally, the study found that the financial situation of the unemployed only played a minor role in the isolating impact of unemployment.
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the study examines whether the impact of unemployment on the risk of becoming socially isolated is different for women and men and whether it can be traced back to financial straits. An isolating effect of unemployment is found only with regard to men, to long-term unemployment, and to social isolation in terms of scarce contact to friends and family. There is no such effect with regard to women, to short-time unemployment, and to social isolation in terms of a non-participation in civic associations. It is also found that the isolating impact of unemployment is only to a small extent attributable to the financial situation of the unemployed.
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