Unemployment, the Household, and Social Networks

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Most research on the social consequences of unemployment has tended to focus on its implications for the individual. In particular, it has shown that the loss of work leads to a marked rise in anxiety and depression (Warr 1987). However, some of the earliest qualitative studies (Bakke 1935, 1940a,b; Komarovsky 1940) also suggested that unemployment had major implications for the quality of household relations and for the relationship between the household and the wider community (Jahoda et al. 1972). In particular, it was seen as leading to a shift in roles within the household and to the increased social isolation of unemployed people. Both of these factors were seen as reinforcing the psychological distress generated by unemployment.

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