The Social Costs of Unemployment

Ian Miles
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
March 1985
What Sort of Social Costs?
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The ‘Impacts’ of Unemployment

 Figure 2Well-Being
Researching Unemployment and individual

Factors Confounding Relationships Between Unemployment and Well-Being

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Strategies of Research Into Costs of Unemployment

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Some Results of the OPCS Longitudinal Survey
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Understanding the Costs of Unemployment

Jahoda’s Analysis of the Impacts of Unemployment

Enduring Features of the Five Categories of Experience

Psychological Provided by Employment
Impacts of Unemployment
Who Else Is Affected?

Needs sorting out

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Relations Between Access to Categories of Experience and

General Health Questionnaire Scores
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Model of the Psychological Impacts of Unemployment

Some Policy Issues

Check Footnote – Morris (1983a,b)

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Local Policy Initiatives Concerning Unemployment
Policies aimed at Unemployment’s:

Circumstances Consequences
Policies aimed at:

Individuals

Communities
References

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