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		Unemployment : risks and reactions / Nikolai Genov, ed. UNESCO-MOST .... - [Electronic ed.]. - Paris [u.a.], 1999. - 324 S. : graph. Darst. = 735 Kb, Text & Image files. - ISBN 954-8443-07-4 Electronic ed.: Bonn: FES Library, 2000 © Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung PREFACE Editor's Introduction RISKS OF UNEMPLOYMENT: GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL Nikolai Genov, Sofia 1. Globalisation, Employment and Unemployment Table 1 2. The East-Central European Context of Employment and Unemployment 3. National Environments of Employment and Unemployment 5. Conclusions NOTE REFERENCES PART I. NATIONAL SETTINGS OF UNEMPLOYMENT INTERPRETING U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES Theodore Caplow, Charlottesville NOTES REFERENCES UNEMPLOYMENT IN WEST GERMANY:CURRENT ASPECTS AND LONG-TERM TRENDS Susanne von Below, Frankfurt am Main 1. Unemployment in West Germany: The Development over the Past Five Decades 2. Unemployment and the Unemployment Rate: Different Definitions 3. Is Official Unemployment Only the Tip of the Iceberg? 4. Benefits for Persons Affected by Unemployment 5. Unemployment in 1997: How Are Different Groups Affected? 6. What Becomes of the Unemployed? 7. Which strategies are most useful for coping with this challenge? NOTE REFERENCES UNEMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN THE ITALIAN LABOUR MARKET TRANSFORMATIONS Antonio M. Chiesi, Trento REFERENCES DUAL ECONOMY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN HUNGARY IN THE 1990s György Lengyel, Budapest 1. The Transformation of the Dual Economy 2. Labour Market, Unemployment, Lastinq Unemployment 3. Concludinq Notes REFERENCES UNEMPLOYMENT IN POLISH AND BULGARIAN PUBLIC OPINION Krzysztof Zagorski, Warsaw 1. The Background and the Departure Point 2. The Feeling of Employment Security 3. Perceptions of Public and Private Sectors as Employers 4. Opinions about Unemployment and the Unemployed 5. Unemployment benefit and moonshine work 6. The Role of the Government 7. Conclusions IS RUSSIA REALLY BECOMING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY? UNEMPLOYMENT RISKS IN THE TIME OF POST-SOVIET RESTRUCTURING Vladimir Rukavishnikov, Moscow 1. Introduction 2. Unemployment in Russia: The General Outlook 3. Public Perception of the Threat of Unemployment 4. A Case Study of Long-term Unemployment in the City of Tver2 5. How to Cope with Unemployment? 6. The Dispute on Governmental Guarantees for Job for Everybody Who Needs One 7. Concluding Remarks NOTES REFERENCES LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL Zhivko Nedev, Sofia REFERENCES CONTRADICTIONS OF THE POST-SOCIALIST SOCIETY UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA Ljubisa Mitrovic, Nis 1. Unemployment as a Phenomenon in the Contemporary Global Social Changes 2. Review of the Structure and Dynamics of the Unemployment Phenomenon in Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia in the Last Decade 3. On the Causes of Unemployment in Yugoslavia 4. Consequences of Unemployment REFERENCES PART II. ASPECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT DEINDUSTRIALISATION IN POST-SOCIALISM. Strategies for Co-habitation with Long-term Unemployment in Hungary Pal Tamas, Budapest 1. Introduction 2. Deindustrialisation: The Fate of the Semi-peripheries? 3. Long-term Unemployment, Cycles of Capitalist Restructuring and the East European "Take-off" 4. Confronting the Crisis of Fordism in the Post-socialist Eastern Europe: Alternative Hungarian Strategies 5. Beyond Gorz? Guaranteed Income as Reappropriation 6. Full Employment Again? 7. The Unintended Consequences of Labour Market Deregulation: The Firm - Welfare State Interactions 8. The Natural Rate of Unemployment Debate: Interventions Unavoidable? REFERENCES SOCIAL ISOLATION OF UNEMPLOYED Mariana Zakharieva, Sofia 1. The Unemployed and the Labour Market: A Growing Distance Preferred methods of job-seeking /Regional survey, January 1999/ 2. Political Alienation of the Unemployed 3. Cultural Models of the Unemployed NOTE REFERENCES LABOUR MARKET IN LATVIA: EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT Aivars Tabuns and Sanita Vanaga, Riga 1. Introduction 2. Changes in Labour Market 3. Unemployed Job Seekers 4. Labour Market Policy 5. Promoting Employability 6. Enhancing Employability NOTES REFERENCES UNEMPLOYMENT AND HIDDEN ECONOMY Anna Mantarova, Sofia 1. Terminological Clarifications 2. The Parameters of Hidden Economy 3. Conditions for the Development of Hidden Economy 3. The Perspectives REFERENCES SOCIAL PROTECTION OF UNEMPLOYED FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN RUSSIA AND FINLAND Galina I. Osadchaya, Moscow 1. Models of Social Protection of Unemployed Families with Children 2. Income Status and Social Self-evaluation of Unemployed Families with Children 3. Efficiency of the Social Protection to Unemployed Families with Children and Possibilities for Its Improvement NOTES ADAPTATION OF THE ROMA ETHNIC GROUP TO THE CONDITIONS OF LASTING UNEMPLOYMENT Kiril Kertikov, Sofia 1. Preliminary Notes 2. Data and Findings from the Conducted Panel Study 3. Some Symptoms of Ethnic Confrontation 4. Summary and Hypotheses NOTES REFERENCES LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT AND HARD-CORE POVERTY IN A POLISH INDUSTRIAL CITY Wielislawa Warzywoda-Kruszynska, Lodz 1. Structural Explanations of the ‘New Poverty’ 2. Employment prospects, income and social status of the unemployed 3. Conclusions NOTES REFERENCES PROGRAMMES FOR JOB CREATION: THE CASE OF "BEAUTIFUL BULGARIA" PROJECT Vyara Gancheva, Sofia 1. Introduction 2. General Characteristics and Time Span of the Project 3. Institutional Framework of the „Beautiful Bulgaria" Project 4. Juxtaposing Goals and Results 5. From Support to Development - the Evolution of the Project 6. Problems and Disadvantages of Providing Temporary Employment 7. Creation of Long-term Employment 8. Training and Re-training Courses 9. Non-material and Side-effects 10. General Conclusions 11. Suggestions NOTES REFERENCES © Friedrich Ebert Stiftung | technical support | net edition fes-library | Februar 2000