Growing Up Without Work: Two Case StudiesResearch paper on youth unemployment, comprising two case studies of the behaviour, attitudes and life styles of the urban area unemployed in Belgium and the UK - based on sample surveys, discusses educational levels, time budgets, social participation, social work, unemployment benefit, unemployment duration, job searching methods, social status, boredom, attitudes on causes and cures of unemployment, etc., by sex and ethnic group. Diagram and references. |
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