Sociology and Space, No. 107-108, 1990.
Original scientific paper
The influence of unemployment on neighbourhood relations
Nada Kerovec
Abstract
This article analyses the negative
effects unemployment has on the
relationship between the individual
and his neighbourhood. Many
research projects both in
Yugoslavia and abroad have shown
that unemployment influences the
relations between the individual
and his primary groups, i. e. it can
have a destructive influence on
family life, weaken relations with
friends, neighbours and the
community in general.
We started from the hypothesis
that unemployment has a
destructive influence on
neighbourhood relations. The
results of research into
unemployment performed at the
end of 1985 in Croatia partly
confirmed this hypothesis. About
81% of the respondents included
in the enquiry considered that
their relations with their
neighbours, from the aspect of
mutual help, visiting etc.,
remained the same as when they
had been employed. About 3% of
the respondents considered that
the relations had improved, about
10% of them considered that they
had deteriorated after
unemployment.
The research results show that
changes in neighbourhood relations
during unemployment occur more
frequently in some categories
of the population. These are in
the first place men, people aged
between 31 and 40, those who
have been unemployed for longer
periods of time and people of
a lower socio-economic status.
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Hrčak ID:
119725
URI
Publication date:
8.6.1990.
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