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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stoilova, Rumiana
• Boyadjieva, Pepka
• Ilieva-Trichkova, Petya
• Krasteva, Veneta
• Yordanova, Gabriela
• Nyagolov, Lachezar

Titel

An interview study of early job insecurity and consequences for the transition to adulthood

Ort / Verlag

Oslo

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "The transition to adulthood is a process which poses various hardships to young people and in which they need to take significant decisions about their future life. When this process coincides with economic and financial crisis, with political and labour market transformation, the situation of the youth is further hampered.; Against this background, the present report focuses on the job insecurity among the youth in Europe and investigates its consequences for the transition to adulthood. It uses information from 209 life course interviews from seven European countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom). Drawing on these data, it has elaborated several patterns of the effects of the situation of early job insecurity on young people's scope for exercising active agency in relation to education, occupation/employment and family formation. We have differentiated between two groups of patterns - of realized and of impossible agency. In the group of patterns of realized agency, we included the following patterns of realized interactions with institutions and individuals: self-relying agency, institutionally-enabled agency, informally-enabled agency and social commitment-enabled agency. In the group of patterns of impossible agency, we classified: disoriented and unmotivated agency, hampered agency, and blocked agency.; This report also explores the main aspects of marginalization and social exclusion which deteriorate young people's scope for exercising active agency (and resilience) in the process of negotiating labour market situation and transition to adulthood. These aspects are analysed at three levels - micro, meso and macro. Thus, at micro level we focus on the low educational and occupational level, the lack of material resources, low autonomy and deteriorated mental/physical well-being. At meso level, we pay attention to the limited or restricted social capital, the limited institutional and NGO support and the insufficient regional and local opportunities. At macro level, we discuss the insufficient or ineffective policies related to education, employment and family.; This report also analyzes mechanisms of gendered labour market outcomes. More specifically, it discusses several situations which provoke considerable difficulties for women seeking satisfying employment, such as: motherhood (early motherhood and single mothers), care work and the need for work life balance, subjective perceptions of the interviewed on the scarring signals on the side of the employers and discrimination, based on gender and ethnicity as well as the chances for upward social mobility from a generational and gender perspective. The report results have clear policy implications. First, it points to the need for elaborating policies - both at local and national level - that directly or indirectly have a positive effect on the capabilities sets of young people with respect to three interrelated dimensions of capabilities related to work, education and autonomy. Second, it suggests that multiple exclusion, resulting from deprivation based on gender, ethnic origin, and class, be taken into account when assessing the effect of youth policies at European, national and local level. Finally, it proposes that socially-responsible business, which is engaged not only in charity but in the formation of the labour potential of employees, should be highlighted and motivated to continue its commitment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).