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The aim of our study was to investigate how young people’s situation in society is affected by unemployment and to explore whether young people are affected psychologically by being unemployed, and if so, how. To investigate this, we used quantitative methodology and conducted a survey of 50 young people in two different employment agencies. The results showed that adolescents are partially a part of the precariat social class and that a large portion of the surveyed young people are psychologically affected by being unemployed in a negative way.

Thesis advisor: Andrew Beauchamp / This paper examines the effect of changes in the duration of unemployment insurance on various measures of post-unemployment job quality within the context of Germany after the Hartz reforms. I find a significant positive effect of UI duration on re-employment wage, as well as significant effects for certain demographic groups indicating increased occupational prestige, job satisfaction, and satisfaction with hours of work. I find no significant effect on distance from home to work. I find that the positive relationship between UI eligibility and unemployment duration is based solely on the unemployment durations of those who exit the labor force after unemployment; I find no evidence of a link between UI eligibility and unemployment duration for those who found jobs at the end of their unemployment spells. To understand these results, I propose several possible explanations: heterogenous job search behaviors among those with different UI durations, a psychological burden of impending UI exhaustion, a negotiation advantage of a higher reservation wage for those with longer eligibility, or the possibility that my data simply failed to observe a positive relationship between UI duration and unemployment duration. Finally, I present one possible policy response to these findings, aimed at reducing the problem of free riding. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Economics.

Thesis advisor: Sanjay Chugh / This dissertation studies unemployment---both its micro-level contours and its macro-level fluctuations---from a search-theoretic perspective. Guided by the structure of search theory, each constituent chapter employs a different set of empirical tools to confront a fundamental aspect of joblessness. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics.

Lee Wai-yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-103). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Trade Models --- p.4 / Chapter a. --- Ricardian model --- p.4 / Chapter b. --- Heckscher-Ohlin model --- p.4 / Chapter c. --- Specific Factor model --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Policy Implications --- p.5 / Chapter 2.3 --- Factor Mobility --- p.5 / Chapter 2.4 --- Imperfect Competition and Trade Policy --- p.6 / Chapter 2.5 --- Capital Taxation --- p.7 / Chapter 2.6 --- Unemployment --- p.9 / Chapter 2.7 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Capital Taxation under Perfect Competition --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Model --- p.16 / Chapter 3.3 --- Comparative Static Analysis --- p.20 / Chapter 3.4 --- Welfare Analysis --- p.23 / Chapter 3.5 --- Conclusions --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Capital Taxation under Imperfect Competition --- p.27 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.27 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Model --- p.28 / Chapter 4.3 --- Comparative Static Analysis --- p.36 / Chapter 4.4 --- Welfare Analysis --- p.40 / Chapter 4.5 --- Conclusions --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Capital Taxation and Unemployment under Perfect Competition --- p.47 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Model --- p.48 / Chapter 5.3 --- Comparative Static Analysis --- p.53 / Chapter 5.4 --- Welfare Analysis --- p.57 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conclusions --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Capital Taxation and Unemployment under Imperfect Competition --- p.61 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.61 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Model --- p.62 / Chapter 6.3 --- Comparative Static Analysis --- p.68 / Chapter 6.4 --- Welfare Analysis --- p.74 / Chapter 6.5 --- Conclusions --- p.77 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusions --- p.79 / Appendices --- p.83 / Appendix I --- p.83 / Appendix II --- p.83 / Appendix III --- p.84 / Appendix IV --- p.85 / Appendix V --- p.86 / Appendix VI --- p.87 / Appendix VII --- p.88 / Appendix VIII --- p.88 / Appendix IX --- p.89 / Appendix X --- p.90 / Appendix XI --- p.91 / Appendix XII --- p.92 / Reference --- p.93

This creative writing thesis consists of a full-length novel, Stay Hungry, Stay Choosy. The premise of the novel is that, by 2050, Italy will be a de jure gerontocracy that cannibalises its young. This thesis contributes to research on moral panics as it brings to the fore the voices of the voiceless and further explores the locus of youth unemployment in the discussion on social deviance. Thus, the thesis explores how Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda's (1994) moral panics theory explains the mono-narrative of young people's transition from education to employment in Italy and the United Kingdom. In my academic research, I use a critical paradigm based on the fundamental premise that creative writing should play a key role in the liminal place that bridges social research and social activism. The research is framed by a number of social theories, underpinning the public discourse on youth overeducation, unemployment and underemployment. Subsequently, an in-depth analsyis is carried out, using the lens of Goode and Ben-Yehuda's moral panics framework, in order to show how the pervasive dichotomy of the angry youth and the aboulic youth in public discourse is used to stereotype the young and to maintain the power dynamics between both generations and socio-economic classes. Thirdly, Urbanski's 'rhetorical circle' (1975) is shown to be the explanatory metaphor that allows speculative fiction writers, such as Anthony Burgess and Marco Bosonetto, to draw upon pervasive social fears about the young, creatively elaborate upon them and hold up a mirror to readers by incorporating these fears into storytelling. These theoretical concepts are then explored from the perspective of young people, through ethnographic inquiry. Finally, the research outcomes are filtered through the process of self-reflexivity in order to illustrate the choices I had to make in order to complete the present novel in a way that respects both the conventions of the speculative writing genre and draws upon research findings. This thesis thus contributes to the case that creative writing has a key role to play in linking social science findings to practice by drawing concepts and findings together in a coherent narrative. This thesis turns this literary call to action into a real-life manifesto.

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<p>Arbetslösheten i Sverige är i dag högre än på flera år. Ungdomar är en av de grupper med störst andel arbetslösa. Tidigare studier har visat att när en person känner att den har svårt att få ett arbete kan person motivation att söka arbete minska. Även längden på arbetslöshetsperioden påverkar motivationen. Arbetsförmedlingen har som uppgift, bland annat att kontrollera att arbetslösa ungdomar följer sina uppgjorda handlingsplaner, men också att motivera de arbetssökande. Syftet med denna studie (n=132) är att undersöka hur de arbetssökande ungdomarna anser sig bli motiverade, trots arbetsförmedlarnas dubbla roller. Studien visade att bemötande, engagerande och tilltro till den arbetssökandes förmåga att få ett arbete var mest betydelsefullt för ungdomarnas motivation att söka arbete.  </p>