Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v11i3.32
Activities and Financial Status of Unemployed Persons in Croatia. Is there an Indication of Social Exclusion of the Long-Term Unemployed Persons?
Branimir Šverko
; Odsjek za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Mirta Galešić
; Odsjek za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Darja Maslić Seršić
; Odsjek za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
This paper examines the day-to-day activities, financial situation, perceived level of social support and job search activities of short-term and the long-term unemployed persons in Croatia in an attempt to ascertain whether differences between them indicate the process of social exclusion. This process implies a vicious circle of social degradation in which long-term unemployment leads to poverty and social isolation, which in turn reinforces marginalization on the labour market. If such a spiral of social degradation exists, then the long-term unemployed should show a changed structure of day-to-day activities, higher level of financial strain, lower social support and decreased intensity of job search compared to the short-term unemployed. The research was conducted in summer 2003 in 25 field offices of the Croatian Employment Service, on the representative sample of registered unemployed persons (N = 1138). The data analysis revealed various facts about their characteristics and behaviour, but the hypothesized differences between short-term and long-term unemployed were not found. This leads to the conclusion that the detrimental process of social exclusion is not (yet) present in Croatia.
Keywords
unemployment; social exclusion; poverty
Hrčak ID:
30198
URI
Publication date:
1.3.2004.
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