Volunteering and Social Inclusion Interrelations between Unemploymen
Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations in Germany and Great Britain. On the basis of household panel data, she answers questions such as: Does job loss lead peopl
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VS RESEARCH Life Course Research Edited by Prof. Dr. Steffen Hillmert, University of Tübingen, Germany
Susanne Strauß
Volunteering and Social Inclusion Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain
With a foreword by Steffen Hillmert
VS RESEARCH
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Dissertation Universität Bremen, 2007
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Foreword
Over the past few years, the area of volunteer work and civic engagement are topics that have received increasing attention from both the public as well as sociological research. In particular, there has been a controversy as to what degree voluntary work can be regarded as a collective solution for attenuating labour market problems and risks of social exclusion. Empirical evidence for the employment effects of voluntary work has made scholars more sceptical than many optimistic scenarios. So far, however, the links between paid work and voluntary work have mainly been discussed as either a phenomenon on the macro-level of society (like the question of substitution effects) and/or on the basis of results from cross-sectional research. While there has been some evidence for an association between unemployment and reduced engagement in voluntary work – which may represent cumulative disadvantage rather than means of compensation – we know relatively little about the dynamics and directions of causality on the individual level. In contrast to conventional research, the study by Susanne Strauß offers a careful and thorough analysis of mutual relationships between unemployment and voluntary work as they show up as activities in individual life courses. Her work is based on micro-level data and has special merits in applying a multi-level (longitudinal) approach. Most prominent in its description of the labour market effects of volunteering are institutional differences between welfare state regimes. The comparative study demonstrates the impact of the lower level of formal labour market regulation, certification and social security (i.e., unemployment
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