Unemployment and attitudes to work: asking the ‘right’ question

dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NCen
dc.contributor.authorDunn, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorGrasso, Maria
dc.contributor.authorSaunders, Clare
dc.date.acceptance2014-04-13
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-02T10:22:20Z
dc.date.available2019-04-02T10:22:20Z
dc.date.issued2014-08-04
dc.description.abstractAttitudes research has repeatedly demonstrated that the vast majority of unemployed people want a job and that their employment commitment is generally at least as strong as employed people’s. However, until now it has not asked if they are more likely than employed people to prefer unemployment to an unattractive job. While this oversight reflects a noted widespread reluctance to respond directly to right-wing authors’ assertions, this article argues that it is partly attributable to existing studies using survey questions inappropriate for researching unemployment. Responses to the British Cohort Study/National Child Development Study agree/disagree statement ‘having almost any job is better than being unemployed’ were analysed. Being ‘unemployed and seeking work’ associated strongly with disagreeing with the statement across all recent datasets in both studies, even when a number of relevant variables were controlled for.en
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dc.identifier.citationDunn, A., Grasso, M.T. and Saunders, C. (2014) Unemployment and attitudes to work: asking the ‘right’ question. Work, Employment and Society, 28 (6), pp. 904-925en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014529008
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/17674
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.subjectWelfareen
dc.subjectUnemploymenten
dc.subjectAttitudesen
dc.subjectBritish Cohort Studyen
dc.subjectNational Child Development Studyen
dc.titleUnemployment and attitudes to work: asking the ‘right’ questionen
dc.typeArticleen

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