March 25th 2021, 5 pm (CET)
The Institute of Citizenship Studies is happy to invite you to its second online “Authors meet critics”.
Sioned Pearce (University of Cardiff) and Sarah Pickard (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) will discuss
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment. Personal, Social, and Political Effects (see the book)
Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini*, Manlio Cinalli, Christian Lahusen, and Simone Baglioni.
The book examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, it reaches a number of important conclusions. First, our study shows that the experience of long-term unemployment has a negative impact on different dimensions of young people’s lives. When compared to employed youth, unemployed youth are less satisfied with their lives, more isolated, and less independent financially. Second, however, there are important variations across the four cities. This means that, in spite of widespread retrenchments, in some places the welfare state still acts as a buffer against unemployment. Third, although young unemployed people participate in politics equally if not slightly more than employed youth, the young unemployed are often disconnected from politics. This is so even when they have important grievances to express in the face of high youth unemployment, precarious working conditions, and grim future perspectives on the labor market.
Link to enter the online meeting
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* Dr. Jasmine Lorenzini was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Crete Research Center for the humanities, the social and education sciences (UCRC), for the period of September and October 2020.
