Regional employment and individual worklessness during the Great Recession and the health of the working-age population: Cross-national analysis of 16 European countries

This article investigates employment and occupational transitions that are behind structural changes in European labour markets before, during and after the Great Recession. The study introduces a new methodological approach for studying labour market flows considering the quality of the jobs from and into which the flows are taking place by differentiating them into wage quintiles. The analysis compares six European countries that are usually associated with different institutional clusters – France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK. It tracks the transitions of their working age populations into and out of inactivity, unemployment and employment (in five wage categories). The findings show the extent to which employment and occupational mobility patterns differ across European countries, resulting in very different outcomes in terms of employment opportunities and life chances. Results also suggest that the countries studied fall into three distinct categories based on the degree of occupational mobility characterising their economies.

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Differences in the Effects of the Great Recession on Health Outcomes among Minority Working-Age Adults

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities ◽

10.1007/s40615-014-0046-y ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 43-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Samuel D. Towne ◽

Janice C. Probst ◽

James W. Hardin ◽

Bethany A. Bell ◽

Saundra Glover

Keyword(s):

Health Outcomes ◽

Great Recession ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Working Age

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Returning to the parental home after the Great Recession: a matter of partnership dissolution or unemployment?

Oxford Economic Papers ◽

10.1093/oep/gpz054 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fernanda Mazzotta ◽

Lavinia Parisi

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Great Recession ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

European Countries ◽

Parental Home ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Returning Home ◽

Two Peaks

Abstract This article provides an analysis of the return of young people to the parental home in 23 European countries. It analyses the effect of the Great Recession, considering the period between 2006 and 2014 and controlling for two key determinants of living arrangements: employment and partnership. The main finding is that the Great Recession has increased the probability of returning home: two peaks are observed in 2009 and 2011, with a percentage of returnees almost double that at the beginning of the period under consideration. Returning home seems more closely linked to partnership than to employment.

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The populist politics of Euroscepticism in times of crisis: Comparative conclusions

Politics ◽

10.1177/0263395718784704 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 378-390 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Andrea LP Pirro ◽

Paul Taggart ◽

Stijn van Kessel

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Great Recession ◽

Right Wing ◽

National Data ◽

The Great Recession ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Face ◽

Left And Right ◽

The Impact ◽

Cross National

This article offers comparative findings of the nature of populist Euroscepticism in political parties in contemporary Europe in the face of the Great Recession, migrant crisis, and Brexit. Drawing on case studies included in the Special Issue on France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, the article presents summary cross-national data on the positions of parties, the relative importance of the crisis, the framing of Euroscepticism, and the impact of Euroscepticism in different country cases. We use this data to conclude that there are important differences between left- and right-wing variants of populist Euroscepticism, and that although there is diversity across the cases, there is an overall picture of resilience against populist Euroscepticism.

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How class identities shape highbrow consumption: A cross-national analysis of 30 European countries and regions

10.31235/osf.io/u9dmy ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Aaron Reeves

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Working Class ◽

Cultural Capital ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

European Countries ◽

Class Identity ◽

Using Data ◽

National Analysis ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cross National

Highbrow culture may not always be central to cultural capital and, in such circumstances, the distinctiveness of middle-class consumption of highbrow culture may diminish, becoming more similar to working-class consumption. Using data from 30 European countries, I explore this issue through examining three questions: 1) is class identity associated with highbrow consumption; 2) does this association vary across countries; and 3) is the relationship between class identity and highbrow consumption altered when the majority of people in a given society identify as either ‘working-class’ or ‘middle-class’? After accounting for other socio-demographic controls, people who identify as middle-class are more active highbrow consumers than those who identify as working class. Yet, the distinctiveness of middle-class consumption of highbrow culture varies across countries and is negatively correlated with how many people identify as working-class in a society. As more people identify as working-class (rejecting middle-class identities) highbrow culture less clearly distinguishes middle-class and working-class identifiers. In the absence of any class-structured divisions in highbrow culture, whether and how cultural practices function as a form of cultural capital is likely quite different, reinforcing the claim that the centrality of highbrow culture to cultural capital varies geographically.

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